. Annals of horticulture in North America for the year ... : a witness of passing events and a record of progress. Popular Gardening,254, 255. P O TATO- () A handyscoop madeby Bissell &T h o r n h i 11,Melford,Mich. It canalso be usedas a potato-sorter. —RuralNew - Yorker,373- Fig. 30 p;Fruit-Sorter.—(Fig. 30.) The illustrationshows a California machine for sorting or-anges and other fruits. (See Annals for 1889,183 \ and Annals for 1890, 257, for othersorters.)—Rural New-Yorker, 421. Orange - Sorter.—(Fig. 31.) Shows oneof the many fruit and potato-sorters nowupon the market o
. Annals of horticulture in North America for the year ... : a witness of passing events and a record of progress. Popular Gardening,254, 255. P O TATO- () A handyscoop madeby Bissell &T h o r n h i 11,Melford,Mich. It canalso be usedas a potato-sorter. —RuralNew - Yorker,373- Fig. 30 p;Fruit-Sorter.—(Fig. 30.) The illustrationshows a California machine for sorting or-anges and other fruits. (See Annals for 1889,183 \ and Annals for 1890, 257, for othersorters.)—Rural New-Yorker, 421. Orange - Sorter.—(Fig. 31.) Shows oneof the many fruit and potato-sorters nowupon the market or devised by ingeniousgrowers.—Popular Gardening, 215. IngeniousFruit- PickingContrivance . —An ingeniousfruit-picking con-trivance has beeninvented by Ed-ward D. Stodder,of San is a light, dou-ble, wheelbarrow-ladder, which canbe folded up orelevated at anyangle at will. An. 376 Annals of Horticulture. endless belt, with double pockets, like those of a grain-eleva-tor, conveys the fruit to the ground and automatically dumpsit into the boxes, doing away with the necessity of the pick-ers leaving the ladder for any other reason than that ofchanging its location. A number of the ladders will be putinto orchards the coming season by the inventor to demon-strate their usefulness. — California Fruit-Grower. Fruit-Nippers.—(Fig. 32.) The latest device for provid-
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