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A pair of grape scissors should be laid on the fruit-dish to use in dividing large bunches of grapes or raisins; but a nut-cracker is too suggestive of hotel life to be acceptable on the home table. Crack the nuts before they are sent to the table. Salt should be served with the nuts. Pass oranges, apples, pears, peaches, and bananas in the fruit-dish, to allow each person the opportunity of choice.

Watermelon. Before serving, cut a slice from each end. Make incisions through the middle in the form of the letter V, separate the parts, and place each in an upright position. Cut through the divisions, and serve one section to each person.

Cantaloupes, if small, are sometimes served cut in halves. If large, divide from end to end in nature's lines of depression.