Printing Patterns on Fruit

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Would you like to see your initials on an apple or pear? It is quite easy to arrange for them if you have an apple of pear tree bearing fruit in your garden.

You must start operations in the early summer, when the fruit has grown to its fullest extent, but while it is still green. This is how you do it. Cut your intials, or any design you choose, out of tough black paper, and then, having selected a nice big apple or pear, well-shaped, free from blemish and, above all, unharmed by birds or insects, you pasre the paper on to the side of the fruit that catches the sun. Do not attempt too large a lettering or the curve of the fruit will cause the paper to cockle. Treat half a dozen or more apples or pears in this way, as there are sure to be some failures before the sun has coloured the unprotected parts. Over and around the lettering brush some white of egg, to act as a varnish against the rain.

Be careful not to tug at the fruit while doing the pasting, as that will cause it to fall later on. In addition to your initials, you can arrange for small outline pictures, and once we applied a portion of a photographic negative, and thus printed a portrait on an apple.