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and a double wall is provided outside 

 above ground. 



The same treatment must be given 

 it as for a separate building, in main- 

 taining a uniform temperature through 

 windows on opposite sides, which are 

 to be opened or closed as already de- 

 scribed. Although less perfect than 

 a separate fruit-house, it requires 

 less care in attendance, and such 

 fruit-rooms have kept winter fruit 

 several weeks or even months longer 

 than by common management. 



In large fruit-houses, two stories 

 high, the entrance should be through 

 the upper story and down a flight of 

 stairs, so as not to disturb the cool 

 and equal temperature below in warm 

 weather through the outside door. 



Fruit for immediate or early use 



may be placed on a series of shelves, 

 one above the other, in the center of 

 the apartment for the attendant to 

 pass around to select ripening speci- 

 mens. Long keepers, or such as 

 Russets, which shrivel easily, may be 

 headed up in tight barrels, where 

 they remain till spring. An inter- 

 mediate way is to put the fruit in 

 flat boxes, i\ feet square and three 

 inches deep, one box placed above 

 another, in piles two or three feet 

 high. All are easily examined by 

 setting the top one off, then the next, 

 and so on, thus forming a new 

 pile. 



No large fruit grower, to make the 

 most of his products, can hope to get 

 along without such or a similar struc- 

 ture. 



TRIMMING CUTTINGS. 



GERAN lU M 

 slips root read- 

 ily, if we only pre- 

 pare them properly. 

 Select a thrifty 

 shoot, about three 

 to five inches long. 

 Cut off clean and 

 smooth with a sharp 

 knife, then remove 

 the lower pair of 

 leaves with a close 

 cut, and trim the 

 leaves left, so that 



the cutting will re- 

 semble the one here 

 illustrated. It is 

 now ready for inser- 

 tion in the propa- 

 gating bed, or in a 

 pot or box of sand. 

 Sandy soil will do 

 in absence of clean 

 sand. Fuchsia and 

 other cuttings are 

 prepared in same 

 way. — Popular Gar- 

 deitina. 



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