. The encyclopedia of practical horticulture; a reference system of commercial horticulture, covering the practical and scientific phases of horticulture, with special reference to fruits and vegetables;. Gardening; Fruit-culture; Vegetable gardening. Fig. 7. Another Type of Portable Orchard Ladder which enables the picker to get close in to the tree without breaking the branches or bruising the fruit. —Courtesy Woods & Soule, Pa/yette, Idaho, Fig. 8. I'he Japanese Ladder. Picking Boxes '"'^^ The picking or lug box should prefer- ably be somewhat larger than the packing box, in order
. The encyclopedia of practical horticulture; a reference system of commercial horticulture, covering the practical and scientific phases of horticulture, with special reference to fruits and vegetables;. Gardening; Fruit-culture; Vegetable gardening. Fig. 7. Another Type of Portable Orchard Ladder which enables the picker to get close in to the tree without breaking the branches or bruising the fruit. —Courtesy Woods & Soule, Pa/yette, Idaho, Fig. 8. I'he Japanese Ladder. Picking Boxes '"'^^ The picking or lug box should prefer- ably be somewhat larger than the packing box, in order to keep it separate from the latter. This size also has the ad- vantage of holding about a packed bushel of apples. The box should have slits cut in the ends so that the fingers may enter for lifting the box, and these ends prefer- ably should be higher than the sides so that as one box is set upon the other there will be no jamming of the fruit. Some orchardists have a very light port- able stand which pickers working on the ground among the lower branches take with them for setting the picking box on. The picker then does not have to stoop to deposit his fruit in his box, and bruis- ing is Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lowther, Granville, ed; Worthington, William, 1871-. North Yakima, Wash. , The Encyclopedia of Horticulture Corporation
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