Vegetable gardening in the mountain glades . or scarred, never piled on top of oneanother, and the stems preserved intact. Besides this, the fruits,as soon as removed from the vine, should be stored in a well venti-lated building which will at the same time admit of being main-tained at a uniform temperature of 40 F. from November until theend of the storage period. The most satisfactory storage rooms areprovided with shelves placed one above the other upon which asingle layer of squashes 3nly are placed, aisles are left between thetiers of shelves to allow of installing and removing the squas
Vegetable gardening in the mountain glades . or scarred, never piled on top of oneanother, and the stems preserved intact. Besides this, the fruits,as soon as removed from the vine, should be stored in a well venti-lated building which will at the same time admit of being main-tained at a uniform temperature of 40 F. from November until theend of the storage period. The most satisfactory storage rooms areprovided with shelves placed one above the other upon which asingle layer of squashes 3nly are placed, aisles are left between thetiers of shelves to allow of installing and removing the squashesand so arranged as to provide for easily heating the air space dur-ing cold periods. When practicable it is usually found to be besteconomy to market the product direct from the field. The carefulhandling necessary with the cost of the building necessary toproperly house such a bulky crop will be found to be large itemsin the cost of preservation, and to justify this the crop must sellfor a decided advance over the price at harvest Fig. 8.—Celery 1899.
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