. [Fruit culture]. qUqUqU (c) crates and have a convenient packing table. Peaches ofvarieties such as the Elberta can be packed much more rapidly §11 PEACH CULTURE 45 than those of varieties hke the Greensboro and Champion, asthey are more uniform in size and maturity. 48. The packing of peaches in the flat Pacific-coast boxesis much the same as the packing of apples in bushel peaches are carefully graded to size, wrapped in paper, andarranged in layers. Generally they are arranged in two layers,but in the case of very small peaches three layers are sometimes. necessar^^ to fill a bo
. [Fruit culture]. qUqUqU (c) crates and have a convenient packing table. Peaches ofvarieties such as the Elberta can be packed much more rapidly §11 PEACH CULTURE 45 than those of varieties hke the Greensboro and Champion, asthey are more uniform in size and maturity. 48. The packing of peaches in the flat Pacific-coast boxesis much the same as the packing of apples in bushel peaches are carefully graded to size, wrapped in paper, andarranged in layers. Generally they are arranged in two layers,but in the case of very small peaches three layers are sometimes. necessar^^ to fill a box; as a rule, however, it does not pay topack extremely small peaches in boxes. As explained pre-viously, the boxes are of various depths; the height of box touse will, of course, depend on the size of the peaches to bepacked. A convenient packing table is necessary, and thesheets of paper, which are usually 7 X 7 in. or 8 in. X 8 size, should be placed where they are convenient to the packer. 249—7 46 PEACH CULTURE 11 As a rule, the diagonal style of pack is employed, the peachesbeing arranged in the so-called 2-2, 2-3, or 3-3 packs, whichare illustrated, respectively, in Fig. 19 (a), (6), and (c), whichshow the arrangement of the peaches in the first layer. Ineach form of pack the second layer is arranged so that thepeaches do not come directly over those in the first 20 illustrates the appearance of boxes of peaches afterbeing packed; in (a) is shown a 2-3 pack and in (&) a 2-2 pack. 49. The number of peaches in the rows that run l
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