Preserving Fruit with Lime.

Manawatu Herald, 10 February 1898, Page 3

Preserving Fruit with Lime.

More or leis attention ha 9 been paid for some years past to the subject of the preservation of fruit and roots by means of # powdered quicElime. An interesting oom>> munication (says Le Genie Civil) has recently been made by Mr Monclar to the Agricultural Society of Albi on the subjtect of the results of his experiments in this direction. He exhibited, in support of his assertionsf some Ohassels grapes, which were perfectly preserved, and were as round and plump as on the day they were gathered. The taste Waialio the lame, except, perhaps, it was a little more sacharine. Unfortunately, despite the fact that M they had been washed, some traces """"of lime remained upon a few of the berries. They had remained embedded in the lime for seven months. Mr Monclar stated that after they had remained only four or five months therein, a washing caused the whole of the lime to disappear. * He added that his grapes had been perfectly preserved during the winter in two different years. About the middle of March only a tenth were spoiled, and a month later about half of them. Apples also have been preserved in lttife.