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Fruit Trees
By Carol Jacobsen
When marketed in baskets raspberries are always best sold in 1 lb. shallow punnets with a handle to them. They squash very if they are packed into the deeper punnets that are used for strawberries.
Late-keeping cooking apples are often picked in October, though they may not be used until January or February or even later. It very much depends, therefore, on the type of apple or pear when picking should take place, and therefore I have tried to give the approximate time for picking in almost every case.
Soft fruits are usually picked commercially on a piece-work basis. The grower aims to pay 3d. or 4d. per pound, or whatever it may be, and he fixes the rate an hour or two after the commencement of picking on the first day in such a way as to ensure that the slow workers do not earn less than when paid by day rate. Thus the quick pickers get the advantage and the whole work will go with a swing.
The sides of such a bucket should be smooth so as to make certain that none of the fruits are damaged. The handle of the bucket should have a large hook fixed to it so that it can be hooked on to the rung of the ladder or on the branch of a tree.
Put the pecked, scabbed or damaged fruit into one box for using immediately, the larger fruits in another box and the medium-sized ones in a third box.
Great care is necessary in handling as well as in actually placing the fruit in the picking container. It is equally important to transfer the fruit from the basket or bucket to the shelving or to the storing boxes extremely carefully. Never grasp a fruit with the thumb and forefingers. It is such slight pressure that causes thumb-marks. Lift the individual fruits up in the palm of the hand, gripping them gently. This operation is known as 'palming off'. Never tug an apple, pear or plum or you may leave the stalk on the tree, and then it is impossible to ensure that the fruits keep readily. Stalkless fruits are the first to decay.
Late-keeping cooking apples are often picked in October, though they may not be used until January or February or even later. It very much depends, therefore, on the type of apple or pear when picking should take place, and therefore I have tried to give the approximate time for picking in almost every case.
Soft fruits are usually picked commercially on a piece-work basis. The grower aims to pay 3d. or 4d. per pound, or whatever it may be, and he fixes the rate an hour or two after the commencement of picking on the first day in such a way as to ensure that the slow workers do not earn less than when paid by day rate. Thus the quick pickers get the advantage and the whole work will go with a swing.
The sides of such a bucket should be smooth so as to make certain that none of the fruits are damaged. The handle of the bucket should have a large hook fixed to it so that it can be hooked on to the rung of the ladder or on the branch of a tree.
Put the pecked, scabbed or damaged fruit into one box for using immediately, the larger fruits in another box and the medium-sized ones in a third box.
Great care is necessary in handling as well as in actually placing the fruit in the picking container. It is equally important to transfer the fruit from the basket or bucket to the shelving or to the storing boxes extremely carefully. Never grasp a fruit with the thumb and forefingers. It is such slight pressure that causes thumb-marks. Lift the individual fruits up in the palm of the hand, gripping them gently. This operation is known as 'palming off'. Never tug an apple, pear or plum or you may leave the stalk on the tree, and then it is impossible to ensure that the fruits keep readily. Stalkless fruits are the first to decay.
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Some of the most famous and widely grown garden fruit trees have resulted from so called chance seedlings.
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