Historical information
Used by R & J.M. Hooper of Homestead Road, Wonga Park on their Orchard
Significance
Used in early orcharding to size fruit before packing
Physical description
. There are several different types of rings, but they all do the same thing, the numbers are inches of diameter, if the fruit sits on that ring and doesn’t drop through that is it’s size.
Fruit of all the same diameter would be packed into a box in a pattern that didn’t move around. With apples and pears that was about 70 pieces of 3 inch fruit per bushel down to about 170 fruit of 2 inch fruit per box.
Inscriptions & markings
The Trayrude 2
