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THE GARDENER'S MONTHLY 



March. 



I will now describe a fruit house built on a There is another laru:e refrigerator or fruit house 



larger scale, having a capacity of 4,000 bushels, in Reading that is constructed upon a somewhat 



which has been in very successful use for twelve similar plan which has been used for preserving 



years. It is fifty feet square and built of stone tropical fruits and storing eggs, etc., for which 



and is twent3'-eight feet high. The fruit room is purpose it has proven very successful. There is 



on the first floor and is eight feet high with an \ still another large refrigerator or fruit house in 



enclosed space four feet in width, on the four ; this city, quite recently completed and stocked 



sides filled with ice from above. The ice house \ with ice, which will be ready for the storage of. 



proper is on the second story and is eleven feet | fruits, etc., the coming season, and which will 



high, which with the spaces referred to is filled prove a great convenience to fruit crrowers as 



with ice. There should always be at least one | well as consumers of this place." 



foot of saw-dust or some other non-conductor of I „, „ _^ __ 



, ^, ^ ^, . , ^, , 1, mu i HE New York Horticultural Society. 



heat between the ice and the outer walls. The _,, . . , . 



— ihis seems to be in a very prosperous condi- 



I tion. The meetings are held regularlj' at Re- 



1 publican Hall, 55 West Thirty-third Street on 



floor must be w^ater-tight with pipes or some 

 other means of conveying the accumulating 

 water to the ground beneath the building. The 

 third story floor is about three feet below the 

 square ; this room is intended to secure ventila- 

 tion and should be covered with some non-con- 

 ductive material to prevent any heated air from 

 entering the building from above. There is a 



the first Tuesday of each month, and the premi- 

 ums offered for plants and flowers are very liberal. 

 Mr. -James Y. Murkland, 12 Courtlandt Street. 

 ]Srew York, is the recording secretary. 



The American Pomological Society. — A 

 room or space about three feet deep below the [great blow to the success of thev.Xashville meet- 

 floor of the fruit room, which is filled from the ing is the death of the energetic Secretary, W. C. 

 surplus of unmelted ice that remains in the second ; Flagg, last Autumn. It requires a great deal of 

 story, and this must be done before stocking [ correspondence and general hard work in advance 

 with fruit in the Fall. Ventilation is secured | to make a meeting go off" at once to good work, 

 through four box ventilators twelve inches square, j and as this will be out of the question this season, 

 leading from the fruit room through the ice room I it will require a more than usual effort on the 

 and extending into the vacant space above the | part of those who recognize the great national 

 third floor. These box ventilators are provided i importance of this society to make everything 

 with valves or stops by means of which the tem- j work prosperously. It will be well for those 

 perature in the fruit room may be easily regula- j w^ho have important facts or information not to 

 ted. The fruit is stored in common boxes con- wait on invitations to offer them as is so often 

 taining two bushels each, the bottom of one box ' the case with the best pomological workers, 

 forming a cover of another, and these boxes are The question of a succession to Mr. Flagg will 

 piled in tiers or sections with spaces between to not be among the least important ones of theses- 

 of admit passage and free circulation. Access :sion. The preparation of the volume of the pro- 

 to the fruit room is secured through a kind of - ceedings, demands great good judgement as well 

 vestibule Avith outside and inside doors, both i as pomological knowledge. As this requires the 

 lined with non-conductive material — hatters' j co-operation of the president, some one within 

 waste wool has proven an excellent non-con- i reach of. the other at the work will be a consider- 

 ductor for this purpose. The two doors, an inner ation. For this, as well as for eminent fitness 

 and an outer door, are necessary to prevent the in every respect no one would be more acceptable 

 admission of air when persons pass in and to the great body of pomologists than Mr. Robert 

 out. Manning. In the event of the services of Mr. 



The cost of this building when erected was i Manning not being obtainable, no one would be 

 about S2,000 and it requires about 1,000 tons of j more acceptable than Mr. P. J. Berckmanns, of 

 ice to fill it properly, about two-thirds of which j Ga. The venerable President "Wilder, will of 

 is annually consumed by the heat. Ever since \ course be re-elected. We do not know whether 

 the completion of this building it has been used : either of these estimable gentlemen will serve, 

 for the storage of various kinds of fruits, and has There are others no doubt quite as worthy to fill 

 proven an entire success, and the owner has the honorable office. We only name these in 

 realized a handsome profit upon his invest- ' order that the subject may begin to receive 

 ment.. attention. 



