. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. ying in-fluence of heavy or wet snows by leaning mats against thewall over the beds. Baden-Baden. Max Leichtlin. are the parts that give it its chief value for human use. Assoon as the fruit and its seeds are ripe the fleshy exteriorpart begins to decay, and what we call ripening or maturingare only primary stages of that process, which is to release theseed, so that it may grow into a new plant. After the fruit is carefully gathered, the whole question ofkeeping resolves itself into a question of temperature, butwith
. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. ying in-fluence of heavy or wet snows by leaning mats against thewall over the beds. Baden-Baden. Max Leichtlin. are the parts that give it its chief value for human use. Assoon as the fruit and its seeds are ripe the fleshy exteriorpart begins to decay, and what we call ripening or maturingare only primary stages of that process, which is to release theseed, so that it may grow into a new plant. After the fruit is carefully gathered, the whole question ofkeeping resolves itself into a question of temperature, butwith due attention also to moisture. Pears, apples and grapesrequire a low and uniform temperature, and proper protectionfrom fungous attacks. Aside from the latter danger, whichmay be favored by dampness, a saturated atmosphere is notobjectionable ; but care must be taken not to allow cold fruitto be taken into a warm atmosphere, producing that depositof visible moisture upon its surface which is erroneously calledsweating. In such cases it is not so much the moisture itself. Fig;. 70.—A Garden Pool.—See page 434. Keeping- Fruit in Winter. A WRITER is quoted as objecting to the practice of gather-ing apples for keeping as soon as the pips begin to turnbrown. He says apples gathered at this stage do not keepas well, or average of so good quality. Certainly they donot. An apple makes a noticeable portion of its growth—often as much as one-fourth—while its seeds are , on the other hand, the keeping of late-ripening apples isgreatly lengthened by gathering them as soon as the seeds arefully colored. Up to that time the fruit improves on the that it deteriorates, so far as keeping is concerned, and,with some varieties, it deteriorates rapidly, so that winter fruitbecomes in a few days fall fruit. The art of handling fruit for keeping is very imperfectly un-derstood, both as regards principles and practice. The seasonof many of our fruits is capable of bein
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