JiQuary : 



1871. ] 



JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



81 



^lepositing it carefully in the basket. The fruit should not be 

 removed from this until it is taken to the fruit-room and de- 

 posited on the shelves by hand. All fruit in any way damaged 



should be separated from the sound spaoimsns, this to be 

 kept by itself and used first. 

 But for the fruit to keep well after it is gathered there 



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Fig. 2.— Ground Plan. 



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should be a good fruit-room. If possible a room should be 

 built specially for fruit. -\u npper room is too dry, and a 

 cellar is generally too damp. The floor of the room should be 

 ■elevated a foot or more above the surrounding surface to insure 

 a dry bottom, and the best form is a lean-to, with the highest 

 wall on the south side, so that the sun would not act upon it. 



as fruit requires an equable temperature. The walls should be 

 thick, and if they are made hollow so much the better. Many 

 fruit-room walls are of '.l-iuch brickwork, but 14-inch work is 

 better ; the thicker the walls are the more equable will be the 

 temperature of the interior. 



The internal arrangement should consist of a series of shelves 



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Fig. 3.— LoBgitncUaal Section. 



Shelves made with battens, 1 J inch 

 wide, and 1^ inch apart. 

 I Close hoarding around the sides of 

 the room. 



Air space between the boards and 

 the wall. The roof also has an 

 air space on the north side be- 

 tween the two plaster ceilings, as 

 shown on the section. 



REFERENCES TO ENGRAVINGS. 



I, Stove. 1 Partition 



■:, Cii-cular window hung on pivots, the shel 



and fitted with a roller-bUnd. }, C. ach bo 



n wjrk similar to 

 ler fr-ut-room. 



