. Fruit farming: practical and scientific, for commercial fruit growers and others. Fruit-culture. CHAPTER XLVI. GRADING AND PACKING OF FRUIT FOR MARKET. By T. J. PouPART. It is almost with fear and trembling that anyone dare approach this subject at any time, but it was never so essential that English growers should grade and pack well as it is to-day, with growers in all distant parts of the world competing for the world's markets with produce graded and packed as the consumer requires it. So much has been said and written about the packing and grading of fruit that growers are apt to resent
. Fruit farming: practical and scientific, for commercial fruit growers and others. Fruit-culture. CHAPTER XLVI. GRADING AND PACKING OF FRUIT FOR MARKET. By T. J. PouPART. It is almost with fear and trembling that anyone dare approach this subject at any time, but it was never so essential that English growers should grade and pack well as it is to-day, with growers in all distant parts of the world competing for the world's markets with produce graded and packed as the consumer requires it. So much has been said and written about the packing and grading of fruit that growers are apt to resent further pro- nouncements on the topic. What is here offered for the perusal and consideration of growers is not so much in the nature of advice; rather it is a collection of opinions resultant upon ob- servations made in the course of handling , large quantities of fruit during many seasons. If experience, admittedly the best of all tutors, be highly valued, then the opinion of a salesman who has closely watched the preferences of a large com- munity ol buyers must at least be worth consideration. Should just a few growers benefit by the lessons learnt at Covent Garden, the writer of these notes will not have laboured in vain. The underljdng principle which has actuated these notes might thus be epitomised " What Sells Best," or, in other words, " What the Con- i3umer ; GoosEBERBiBS.âMost growers do the right thing in regard to gooseberries. Very early fruit sells best, for a few only, in 61bs. chips, to be followed almost directly with pecks containing 12lbs,, these again to be followed as soon as prices reach a reasonable level by half- "bushels containing 28lbs. Some growers may ask, why 28lbs. 1 the answer being â 241bs. of gooseberries does not as a rule fill a half-bushel, and a basket that has the appearance of being badly filled is not in favour with buyers. Ripe berries, either yellow or red, in the customary half-bushel ba
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