360 PEESEEVATION OF FEUITS. 



The interior should be fitted up with shelves and binns, 

 with places for barrels or other articles, in which fruits 

 are packed. 



Attention to fruits in the cellar or fruit room. — ^The 

 decay of fruits is caused either by bruises or by a fungus, 

 or species of mildew, that increases rapidly and attacks 

 all the sound fruits within its reach. It is, therefore, 

 necessary to examine fruits frequently, and remove all 

 that show any symptoms of decay, before they have 

 either afi'ected others or tainted the atmosphere of the 

 room. 



