Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1870 — To Print, on Fruits. [ARTICLE]

To Print, on Fruits.

When a handsome fruit is iatended to be shown at a lsdr. fr s«Bt tp stjWea&Jt will add something In the way of novelty to have its naine or that -Of seme person printed indfliblyppan ita surface. „TWd . < U»ay be done m K-veraX ways, hut thq most‘conimbtt methods are hi fallows: Just before the fruit has attained its maturity, cut from tough, thin paper the name proposed and paste this upon the side of the specimen meat fully exposed, to the sun. That port ion of the fruit covered by the paper will assume a different color from the others and when ripe' the paper is removed,,leaving the, name distinctly viable. Upon squashes and melons, names and inures may be indelibly imBorne. •"*’{ ■