. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. 132 THINNING, GATHERING. KEEPING, MARKETING. baskets and crates, such as are now almost used everywhere, 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 the smaller boxes, often used in portions of the West, is con- structed in the following manner: I. Prepare five drawers
. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. 132 THINNING, GATHERING. KEEPING, MARKETING. baskets and crates, such as are now almost used everywhere, 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 the smaller boxes, often used in portions of the West, is con- structed in the following manner: I. Prepare five drawers, each two feet long and twenty inches wide, and two inches deep in the clear. It is best ^"^- '''• to have them made of pine, three - eighths of an inch thick. It is most convenient to have the stuff all sawed the same width, say two and. Fig. 195. Fig. 196. Wooden Nests for Small Fruit. a half inches wide, and use it this width for the bottom, leaving them about one-sixteenth of an inch apart for venti- lation. The front and back sides of each drawer should extend three-quarters of an inch beyond the ends, as shown in Fig. 195. Next, provide two strips of strong wood (white ash for example) two inches wide and three-quarters of an inch thick. These should be of the same length as the sides of the box, so that when placed lengthwise under the box they may project three-quarters of an inch beyond the ends. Nail these strips so that they shall be lengthwise under the bottom, and three-eighths of an inch from the outer part of the sides. The nails may be driven through the bottom down into the strips. Then nail to the box four similar strips placed vertically, so that their ends shall rest on these pro- jecting pieces, as shown in Fig. 196, and strengthen the con- nection by sheet-iron straps passing around the corners. When the boxes are used, the lower one, Fig. 196, is filled. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digita
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