FRUIT PRESERVED FOR THE EXHIBITION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 51, 13 March 1906, Page 2

FRUIT PRESERVED FOR THE EXHIBITION.

To the Editor. ' >' Ril ',— I see that at a mcetrng of those interested in procuring exhibits from Nqlsou f o r the Chrtstchurch Exhibition, it was proposed that ii ths fruit itself would not keep, models could b., made and "fepres.ent tho fruit by. such. I think this would be quiitu unnecessary. The j ar before last I packed away six cases of as many varieties of apples and kept tiuak for oifrht nionths. A t U w ' Wl of . nt »L mic l ! 9M»<i about a tlurd of them as bright as when they wui-o •packed. The -most of the others had had tho gowns ofwornis in thorn, and some of the, pippins got soft. But thoso that survived were as fresh looking as when they Wero put away. Talk ing ot preserving apples.' mv wife and I once haiulTcd an apple that was either plucked by George the ! FouV.th. or plucked in his prWcL _£%*£,. by *"*» WM &* Wat--toi Scott . Nt a garden party at Edi,,ourgh about tho voir 1820 ■1-e preserver of the apple was a i h. r _ u °,' V*i d -„ Wheu sh « shmvod Sus tL J lad been a young girl a_ the gar-den party whon she rccehwl and carefully put „ W ay .he aptfe \^urs, etc,, ' CIVTR