1887. 



POPULAR GARDENING. 



205 



There are several varieties of the plant, 

 having respectively, purple, white, violet, or 

 rose-colored flowers, or intermediate shades of 

 those, and some are striped and others singularly 

 checkered, with white on a dark-purple ground. 



A Successful Cold Storage House. 



K. H. CUSHMAN, EITLID, OHIO. 



East of Cleveland some ten miles, located in 

 the midst of the Euclid vineyards, is the cold 

 storage house of Messrs. Hunt & Ken- 

 dall. It is a wooden structure, and 

 was erected in the summer of 1S8.5, at 

 a total cost of $7,000, which includes 

 the considerable expense of making 

 two ice ponds, one seven feet deep, 

 both being located within 40 feet of 

 the building. A ground plan of the 

 building and its surroundings is shown 

 in the engraving below. 



Of the apartments in the building 

 the cold storage room is the main 

 one, size 80x30x13 feet, and having a 

 capacity of 200 tons of Grapes when 

 packed in baskets. Off from the storage 

 room, and connecting with the pack- 

 ing room is a small room 10x10 for 

 gradually tempering the fruit in its 

 passage to and from the cold room. 

 The packing room is in the north 

 end of the building, and this is neatly 

 fitted up with scales, tables, desks, and 

 everything convenient for packing fruit 

 for market. Underneath is a cellar, and 

 above is a storage room for boxes, baskets, 

 etc., both of the same size as the packing 

 place and connected by stairs. A loading 

 platform opens out from the ground room. 



The upper figure given is a cross section of 

 the cold storage part of the building. The 

 foundation is of stone and five feet in the 

 ground. The piere for the posts that support 

 the ice floor, of which there are thirty, are four 

 feet square at the base, tapering to twelve 

 inches at the top. On these are heavy cast 

 iron plates, (B), upon which the posts set; the 

 posts are of pine, 10x13 inches. 



that go to make up this wall, the outside sec- 

 tion (C), consists of heavy paper sheathing 

 against the studs, and then siding on the ex- 

 terior. The inside sections or paititions consist 

 of ceiling stud' against studding. The outside 

 space filled with sawdust is ten inches wide, the 

 inner one eight inches. The central air space 

 is six inches in the clear. The width of the in- 

 ner sawdust jacket is increased three inches 

 from the floor of the ice chamber upwards. II, 

 are the joists of the ice floor. HH, the small 





HILLSIDE 



COLD 



STORAGE ROOM 



80 X 30 FT. 



TEM >ERING 



I ROOM 



1 10 X 10 



PACKING ROOM 



20 X 30 FT. 

 (Celhir I'cicUl,, 



,,/v 



HIGHWAY 



GROUND PLAN OF HOUSE, WITH SURF CUNCINGS. 



The outside wall of the storage room consists 

 of two chambers for sawdust with an inter- 

 vening one of air. Of the difl'ercnt features 



CROSS SECTION OF HUNT &, KENDALL'S COLD STORAGE HOUSE. 



gutters which empty into the trough G at- 

 tached to the center beam. J is the ventilator, 

 K the winter door for taking in ice. The 

 floor of this chamber is a patented one, Mr. 

 H. C. Cain, of Cleveland, being the patentee. 

 The floor of the room below is cement, made 

 of lake gravel and Portland cement. Shelves 

 for fruit are shown in the cross section. 



The ice chamber is of the same area as the 

 storage room and eight feet deep, having a 

 capacity of .500 tons. At the time of refilling 

 last winter there was about 100 tons of old ice 

 remaining over. The cost of filling is seven 

 cents when ice is eleven inches thick, when 

 three or four inches it costs twenty cents per 

 ton. The ice is cut and run in the same as in 

 filling a large ice house. 



The temperature of the cold room is 35° when 

 fifty or sixty tons of Grapes are in store, and a 

 little higher when the fniit is firet put in, but 

 does not vary more than four degrees the year 

 round. The fruit to keep well must be fair and 

 sound ; this is insisted upon or else there will be 

 much loss. Especially is this true with Grapes. 



I am informed by Mr. Hunt that the storage 

 of Grapes is very successful and when taken 

 out during cold weather they keep well. Ca- 

 tawbas have been tested most and retain their 

 flavor until midsummer. Concords do not re- 

 tain their flavor as well. Apples have their 

 season prolonged about two months, and keep 

 well after being taken from the storage room. 

 It is the same with Pears, with this exception, 

 Bartletts when kept over a month spoil very 

 quickly on being taken into the open air. Ap- 

 ples and Grapes should be ripe. Pears a little 

 green when put in the storage room. Plums 

 were kei>t over and exhibited at the Fruit and 

 Flower show held the 14th and l.'ith of June, in 

 Cleveland. Sweet Cherries have been kept in 

 good condition si.x weeks. Black Cap Raspber- 

 ries three weeks. Potatoes of last year taken 

 out and eaten August 10 were declared to be 

 better than ripe Potatoes of this season. 



As the house has only been in operation one 

 season, further experience is desirable before 

 its merits can be fully estimated. The amount 

 of profit in such a storage of fruit is governed 

 so much by the demand and supply of produce 

 that no general rules can be given on that 

 point. It should be observed that cold storage 

 will not make imperfect fruit fair, or bad eggs 

 good, but will very profitably carry many kinds 

 of perishable produce beyond glutted maikets 

 into times of scarcity and good piicis. 



The PortaRe Co. (Ohio) Horticultural 



Society. 



The July meeting was held at the residence 

 of Mr. G. B. Green, Kent. Considering the busy 

 season, a large munber were present. After 

 the Society dinner the meeting was opened 

 and minutes, reports, etc., were read. The re- 

 port on the exhibits was especially interesting. 

 Mr. Frank Ford, of the Vineyard Committee, 

 reported an almost total absence of what is 

 called the first rot of the Grape, the bunches 

 seeming ahiiost perfect. President 

 Beebe remarked that hitherto he had 

 always bagged his Grapes with good re- 

 sults, but that this season they seemed 

 quite as good without. 



A profound and yet very interesting 

 paper on " Soil, its Formation and Use," 

 was presented by the well-known geologist. 

 Prof. J. W. Pike, of Windom. It was 

 illustrated with specimens of the various 

 soil producing rocks, etc. Followed by a 

 profitable discussion of the subject by many 

 of the memberff, all of whom claim an inti- 

 mate acquaintance with the soil. we believe. 

 Secretary Albert Olin gave an admirable 

 paper on *' Horticulture for the Young." 



Among the exhibits we noted the follow- 

 ing: Ford's Karly Sweet Com, soUd, well 

 tilled ears, fit for use by July l.'jth. by Mr. 

 K. L. Shurtliff, Kent, O. Sabin Field Corn, 

 early, and well filled, by Geo. W. Boosinger, 

 of the same place. 



A basket of tine Clark No. 1 Potatoes, 

 seedling of Early Rose, ripe 59 days from 

 planting, quite free from scab, productive, 

 few small ones. Grown on rich soil. Basket of 

 Shaffer's Colossal Raspberry, a few Thwack and 

 Winards of good color, by Mr. H. H. Botsford, 

 Kent, O. He spoke highly of the quality and pro- 

 ductiveness of the ShafTer, as did the members 

 generally, the sentiment being that this variety was 

 the best in cultivation in this region for all purposes. 

 Some Le Conte Pears of good size, but of the 

 usual Apple like flavor, grown near Jacksonville, 

 Fla., were shown in good condition. Of two Black- 

 berries. Snyder and Western Triumph, also shown 

 by Mr. G. W. Dean, Kent. O., the Snyder was the 

 favorite for market, though the Triumph presented 

 the best appearance. Some nice Greggs were in- 

 cluded in the exhibit of Mr. Dean. 



Three lots of Peaches, Amsden, Waterloo, and 

 Alexander were shown by Mr. Joseph Heighten, 

 Kent, O . The Amsden being preferred both on ac- 

 count of <iuality and appearance. The Alexander 

 seemed rather disposed to decay and was badly 

 stung by Curculio. Mr. Heighten mentioned that 

 he had gathered over IH^X) Curculios by jarring the 

 trees with a mallet, the pests falUng on paper. 



Several ladies contributed some fine lots of cut 

 flowers, and these, along with Presiiient Beebe's 

 display of Roses, did much to round up the beauty 

 of the general display of products. 



The meetings of this Society show a degree of in- 

 terest on the part of the members that is worthy of 

 wide enuilation. Some of the meetings have had 

 an attendance as high as :;50 to 400 people. 



Send Flowers to the Sick. The case was touch- 

 ingly cited at a meeting of the Missouri Horticul- 

 tural Society of a young man sick with consump- 

 tion, who had traveled for his health with little re- 

 lief, and had come home to die. A lady who under- 

 stood the benign and soothing influence of a few 

 flowers sent a bunch daily to the sick room ; they 

 were intended and very likely answered the pur- 

 pose to call off his attention from his sufferings and 

 to point him to the better land where everlasting 

 spring abides and never fading flowers. The young 

 man so valued this kindness that he could not for a 

 moment bear to have any one step in between him- 

 self and his bouquet. 



Respect for the Sabbath. Early in the season 

 the committee on fresh fruits, etc., of the Produce 

 Exchange of New York called the dealers together 

 and proposed that the deliveri* of fruits and pro- 

 duce on Sunday be discontinued, having them ar- 

 rive on Monday. It met with general favor, and a 

 committee was appointed to visit the railroads and 

 reipiest them to give the pickers four hours more 

 to pick on Saturday, and let the fruit arrive on 

 Monday. They found them all ready to adopt the 

 plan, and now Sabbath breakers are compelled to 

 respect the wishes of those who think six days in 

 one week is enough for fruit growers and commis- 

 sion merchants to work for a living.— C. H*. /. 



