. The American fruit culturist. gh winter, within three de-grees of freezing. One of the most convenient modes for gathering, storing,and keeping apples for home consumption, is in flat are filled directlyfrom the trees in the tr ? !M.^a- ^ IT -amm. -mimm .|||^^, orchard, and they maybe at once conveyed toan out-building, or piled up in a sheltered place in the orchard in the way shown in This mode admits the free circulation of air, and theymay be protected from the weather with a board cover. Aswinter approaches, they are conveyed to the cellar or fruit-room without dist
. The American fruit culturist. gh winter, within three de-grees of freezing. One of the most convenient modes for gathering, storing,and keeping apples for home consumption, is in flat are filled directlyfrom the trees in the tr ? !M.^a- ^ IT -amm. -mimm .|||^^, orchard, and they maybe at once conveyed toan out-building, or piled up in a sheltered place in the orchard in the way shown in This mode admits the free circulation of air, and theymay be protected from the weather with a board cover. Aswinter approaches, they are conveyed to the cellar or fruit-room without disturbing their contents. Or if they are to bereceived in a cold fruit-house, the fresh fruit may be at onceconveyed to it. When packed away for winter, the boxes may be disposedof as shown in Fig. 201, and when they are examined for the removal of decaying speci- mens, the boxes are takendown one at a time, and re-placed in a new pile. It willobviate the necessitj^ of dis-turbing or turning over thefruit for examination, if the. Fig. 201.—Storing Fruit Boxes. boxes are quite shallow or only three or four inches deep, soas to contain only a single layer of specimens. They shouldhave slatted bottoms, to admit the circulation of the cool the lumber of which they are made is sawed of the rightwidth, they are rapidly constructed by nailing together. Aconvenient size for the boxes is twenty by twenty-four inches,with slats at the bottom two inches wide and three-fourths ofan inch apart. They will be cheaper for the same contents ifsix inches deep; but the fruit is more easily picked over whenin a single layer with a depth of only three inches. If the boxes are well made they will fit closely together inthe piles, and, if desired, give nearly the same advantages ofprotection from currents of air and changes of temperature aswhen packed in barrels, while the fruit may be examined at 13^ THINNING. GATHERING, KEEPING, MARKETING. any time for the removal of decaying specimens, with
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