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compact contrivance for keeping pears is a series of drawers, occu- 

 pying one or both sides of an apartment. Unless the fruit-cellar 

 is a very dry one, these drawers should be in an unfreezing room 

 above. The size of the fruit-cellar may vary with the amount to be 

 kept. If the shelves are five feet wide, and a passage two and a 

 half feet wide extend around them, a width of ten feet would be 

 required for the whole apartment. The room may be of any desired 

 length. A double series of shelves would require a width of seven- 

 teen and a half feet. 



The accompanying figure (Fig. 162) represents the plan of a sim- 



SHETLVES for FR (JIT 



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Fig. 162. 



pie fruit-room, with shelves, five feet wide in the centre, three in 

 number, one above the other, supported by six posts, with a passage 

 two and a half or three feet wide all around. Fig. 163 represents a 



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SHELVES 



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Fig. 163. 



larger fruit-room, with two series of shelves, and a row of drawers 

 for pears on each side. 

 Keeping Grapes. The great leading requisite for keeping grapes 



