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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



pie and remarkable for their velvety richness. 

 It should be planted in a deep, rich, sandy 

 loam, well mulched in the winter by rotted 

 manure. The bloom attains its highest de- 

 gree of perfection if the plant has partial 

 shade and liberal supply of water at the 

 roots. 



A home is not a home at all unless it is at 

 least surrounded by a few of the beauties of 

 nature. Her beauties are not hard to find, 

 for man with his eyes open cannot help see- 



ing- them every day of his life. In beautify- 

 ing your home the best guide you can find 

 is nature herself. Just notice the woods in 

 all their autumn glory, how many thousands 

 are massed together and yet all is perfect 

 harmony. We should therefore try not to 

 mar nature's ideals, but rather to join with 

 her in seeking to make our Dominion 

 beautiful. 



Charles Ernest Woolverton. 

 O. A. C, Guelph, April, 1900. 



COOL STORAGE FOR APPLES. 



Sir.— Could you give us in the Canadian Horti- 

 culturist a simple plan for a cheap building capable 

 of holding from 100 to 500 lbs. apples, where the 

 temperature could be lowered by a sub-earth duct 

 or other means. 



Last October we had very warm weather after 

 the apples were gathered and what were in open 

 buildings were much injured. 



Some form of building in which the temperature 

 might be partly controlled at least, would be of 

 much value to the fruit growers. 



J. C. Oilman, Fredericton, N. B. 



We have in Ontario and in New York 

 State, at shipping points here and there, 

 large apple storage houses, the walls, floors 

 and ceilings of which are made impervious 

 to cold or heat by dead air spaces, and by 

 the free use of saw-dust; places where in fall 

 and winter season cool air may be admitted 

 from the outside when needed, and frost can- 

 not enter when apertures are closed. Then we 

 have some ice cooled store houses, which have 

 been built for summer use in storing pears and 

 peaches, but we do not know of one that 

 would just meet the wishes of our subscriber 

 so well as one recently described in Country 

 Gentleman as follows:— 



Our readers will understand that the de- 

 tails of this plan can be modified consider- 

 ably where circumstances demand. In fact, 

 this scheme would naturally not be adopted 

 except on perfectly level land. Sloping land 

 is very convenient for building such a stor- 



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Fig. 1804. 



age house. When one has a good slope he 

 should make the front of his house on the 

 lower end of the incline; he should make the 

 floor just high enough so that barrels may 

 be easily discharged from the wagon on to 

 the platform at the front door; and he should 

 let the building run back into the ground 

 just as deep as the slope makes necessary. 

 Putting the house partially below the ground 

 will help to regulate the temperature. 



The main storage room of the house here- 

 with illustrated is 36 by 38 feet, and will 

 hold just about 1000 apple barrels when full. 

 They will then be piled up three tiers high, 

 which is not an inconvenient arrangement, 

 Apple growers have generally found it best 

 to store apples in barrels. The house also 

 has a sorting and packing room 10 by 36 

 feet, all of which space will be needed. 

 This packing room stands next to the outside 



