. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. THINNING, GATHERING, KEEPING, MARKETING. I37 air in well-constructed houses on the cold-air principle has been kept for five months, through 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 boxes. These are filled directly from the trees in the r, 'â ii^. '' :i orchard, and they may be at once conveyed to pic. jo^PiUng Fruit Boxes. an out-building,
. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. THINNING, GATHERING, KEEPING, MARKETING. I37 air in well-constructed houses on the cold-air principle has been kept for five months, through 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 boxes. These are filled directly from the trees in the r, 'â ii^. '' :i orchard, and they may be at once conveyed to pic. jo^PiUng Fruit Boxes. an out-building, or piled up in a sheltered place in the orchard in the way shown in Fig. 200. This mode admits the free circulation of air, and they may be protected from the weather with a board cover. As winter approaches, they are conveyed to the cellar or fruit- room without disturbing their contents. Or if they are to be received in a cold fruit-house, the fresh fruit may be at once conveyed to it. When packed away for winter, the boxes may be disposed of as shown in Fig. 201, and when they are examined for the removal of decaying speci- mens, the boxes are taken down one at a time, and re- placed in a new pile. It will obviate the necessity of dis- turbing or turning over the PIG. . Fruit Boxes. ^^^.^ ^^^ examination, if the boxes are quite shallow or only three or four inches deep, so as to contain only a single layer of specimens. They should have slatted bottoms, to admit the circulation of the cool air. If the lumber of which they are made is sawed of the right width, they are rapidly constructed by nailing together. A convenient size for the boxes is twenty by twenty-four inches, with slats at the bottom two inches wide and three-fourths of an inch apart. They will be cheaper for the same contents if six inches deep; but the fruit is more easily picked over when in a single layer with a depth of only three inches. If the boxes are well made they will fit closely together
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