. The American fruit culturist. is important that the bloom is not rubbed off, that theberries show no finger marks, and that the clusters be cut, notpulled, from the vine. Packing Straivberries and Othei Small Fruits.—These shouldbe packed in small or shallow boxes, holding not over onequart—and sent to market in open-slat wooden crates. Both 132 THINNING, GATHERING. KEEPING, MARKETING. baskets and crates, such as are now almost universally usedeverywhere, are undoubtedly familiar to every one A convenient, light, and cheap set of drawers, or flat boxes,for conveying such firm-fleshed berries
. The American fruit culturist. is important that the bloom is not rubbed off, that theberries show no finger marks, and that the clusters be cut, notpulled, from the vine. Packing Straivberries and Othei Small Fruits.—These shouldbe packed in small or shallow boxes, holding not over onequart—and sent to market in open-slat wooden crates. Both 132 THINNING, GATHERING. KEEPING, MARKETING. baskets and crates, such as are now almost universally usedeverywhere, are undoubtedly familiar to every one A convenient, light, and cheap set of drawers, or flat boxes,for conveying such firm-fleshed berries as currants, goose-berries, and the more solid strawberries, or for holding thesmaller boxes, often used in portions of the West, is con-structed in the following manner: I. Prepare five drawers, each two feet long and twentyinches wide, and two inches deep in the clear. It is best ^^^^ 97- to have them made of pine,three - eighths of an inchthick. It is most convenientto have the stuff all sawedthe same width, say two and.
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