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to their employers the necessity of erecting such. Let them 

 explain minutely the necessary requirements, and perhaps 

 there may be found some existing building that could with a 

 very little expense be fitted up as a fruit room ; or, in the 

 absence of that, he will be able to point out the most suitable 

 site for one, and the most convenient and best mode of fitting 

 it up, &c., and there is no reasonable employer but will accede 

 to hia request. 



I send you ground plan and section of a fruit-room which 

 has been erected here for my employer, W. Hatton, Esq., as it 

 may, perhaps, be of some assistance to those who contemplate 

 erecting one. Fig. 23 ia a section of it, and shows the ventilator 

 at the far end of the room. It ia at the back of the north 

 wall of the garden where it is erected, so that the aspect ia 

 north. One-half of the door of entrance to the room is 

 louvres with slide, so that we can have a current of air through 

 the room, or shut it up as required ; the windows open also as 

 ventilators if required. There ia an air space in the walls 

 with ventilating air-bricks bottom and top, which prevents all 

 danger arising from a damp inside wall, and ia also much 

 more effectual in resisting the frost than a solid wall. 



chemist, and his garden is in close proximity to his works; but 

 on entering the exhibition tent and after a careful inspection of 

 the plants all idea of the smoke, the dust, and dirt of the "east 

 end " of London ia removed ; the plants and flowers are as clean 

 and healthy as if they had just been removed from the bracing 

 air of the country. 



The principal competition was in the collections of plants, 

 and these were arranged much in the same way that the princi- 

 pal nurserymen arrange theirs at the large exhibitions — foliage 

 and flowering plants, either stove, greenhouse, or hardy, mingled 

 together to form the best effect possible. Mr. C. Parker, from 

 Clay Hall Works, Bow, had the best collection, it occupied 

 30 feet run of staging ; another very nearly equal to it from Mr. 

 H. T. Deacon, British Street, Bow, of the same extent was 

 second. In Mr. Parker's collection were some very well-grown 

 j Palms, and in the front row dwarf Cockscombs of excellent 

 quality. Mr. Deacon also exhibited a splendid Dicksonia antarc- 

 tioa, five hardy Ferns, and six fine pots of Gladiolus Brenchley- 

 ensis. Liliums were very fine indeed, the best were sent by 

 Mr. Hare. Dahlias were exhibited by Mr. Whendon, High 

 Street, Poplar. Fuchsias very well grown indeed by Mr. Hanson. 

 There were also collections of fruit, showing that pomology is 

 not neglected where floriculture flourishes. Mr. TuU of 10, 



Fig. 23. 

 Section. 



a, Tables. 

 B, Pathway. 



Scale 8 feet to the inch. 



c. Trellis Bhelves. 



d, Air space in walls. 



The interior arrangements, as will be seen from the drawings, 

 consist of trellis shelves all round, and opposite each window 

 ia a table with drawers underneath ; the former is useful for 

 examining or comparing fruits, the latter for storing any choice 

 sort. There is also a table down the centre of the room 20 feet 

 long, and a pathway all round laid in diamonds with 6-inch 

 paving bricks, red and blue alternately. In the pathway will 

 be seen two lids ; these are to admit heat if necessary from 

 hot-water pipes underneath. The pipes are mains, flow and 

 return, which supply a range of houses on the opposite side 

 of the wall. The ceiling is covered with match-planed boards, 

 and all the woodwork is planed smooth, and the sharp edges 

 taken off the strips to prevent any indentation of the fruit ; 

 and the uprights and strip in front of each shelf. The ceil- 

 ing and table-tops are all varnished, so that the whole pre- 

 sents a very neat appearance, and my employer along with his 

 friends enjoys a walk round the fruit-room quite as much as 

 round the garden, examining the different sorts of frnita, which 

 are laid out singly and named, and with their suppoaed time 

 of ripening also noted. — J. Anderson, Hill Grove. 



EAST LONDON AMATEUR FLORICDLTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



The summer Exhibition of this prosperous Society was held 

 in the grounds of the Grammar School, Tredegar Square, Bow, 

 on the 16th and two following days. On the present occasion a 

 large tent was quite filled with the productions of amateurs in 

 the vicinity, and the excellent exhibition which they made was 

 an instance of what can be done when men are thoroughly in 

 earnest. Their gardens without exception are of very limited 

 extent; their glass houses are also necessarily small, and are not 

 always built according to the latest designs and on the most im- 

 proved principles. The men who own the houses and gardens 

 are hardworking men, and are engaged by day either in business 

 or mechanical pursuits, and their hours of relaxation are de- 

 voted to their flowers. In nearly every instance is their garden- 

 ing carried on under difScultiea, but these are only there to be 

 overcome. One of the principal exhibitors is a manufacturing 



e. Lids for admitting hot air irom pipes ondemeath. 



f. Ventilator. 



Frederick Place, Bow Road, had Muscat and Black Hamburgh 

 Grapes, Pears, Apples, &o. Mr. Parker had Peaches, Plums, 

 Pears, and Apples ; and Mr. "Whendon also showed a creditable 

 collection. The Balsam is a popular flower at the east end, and 

 it was represented by a large number of well-grown plants. 



We must not omit the dinner-table decorations and the 

 baskets of flowers. Some of the baskets were very well ar- 

 ranged, but the largest number were too heavy and stiff ; and in 

 respect to the dinner-table decorations, while none of them 

 could be said to be first-rate, the largest portion were well 

 arranged, the fault throughout being an over-abundance of 

 flowers. Even the first-prize vases were not faultless in this 

 respect. 



Great praise was due to those exhibitors who sent plants and 

 cut flowers not for competition. Mr. S. Hill of Alfred Street, 

 Bow, sent a large collection of well-grown plants. Mr. W. Paul 

 of Waltham Gross sent stands of Eoses and Zonal Pelar- 

 goniums ; and Messrs. Paul & Sons, Chesbunt, cut Eoses, both 

 exhibitors having very fine blooms of the leading varieties. We 

 were informed that many thousands of visitors were admitted to 

 the show during the three days that it was open, and in many a 

 heart the love of flowers must be fostered and encouraged. The 

 Committee, which is composed of the exhibitors themselves, 

 deserve thanks for providing such an interesting source of re- 

 creation in this densely populated neighbourhood. 



MR. THOMAS TAYLOR. 

 Much do we lament the death of this contributor to our 

 columns. In all the relations of life he was estimable. As a 

 member of the firm of Webber & Co., fruiterers in Covent 

 Garden Market, he was an able and courteous man of business. 

 Having a love for and sound knowledge of fruit and its culture, 

 he aided in the effort to establish the Pomological Society, and 

 to within a few years of hia death he continued a member of 

 the Fruit and Vegetable Committee of the Royal Hortieultnral 

 Society. He died on the 1.5th inst., aged sixty-seven. 



MuLCHiNO Strawbebbies. — Some years ago I read in this 

 Journal that bean chaff was excellent for mtUching Straw- 



