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the escape of the warmer air into a vertical chimney in which some upward 

 current is kept by a stove above, or by the ventilator cap at the top. This 

 window is closed as soon as enough air is admitted. The air space beneath the 

 slatted floor receives the warmth of the earth during cold weather in winter. 

 This figure more particularly represents a fruit room in the dwelling ; the floor is 

 double to prevent the passage of heat. Fig. 394 is the cross-section of a fruit- 

 house built wholly above ground. The under-pinning is double, with an 

 air-space as a non-conductor of heat, and with a free connection with the earth 

 below through board registers or through slatted work. The ventilator is readily 

 controlled by the hanging buttons. The piles of fruit boxes are filled with fruit, 

 and being placed one above another, operate as separate covers for each other, 

 and whenever assorting is necessary for removing decayed specimens, they are 

 successively lifted off and new piles thus formed. — Country Gentleman. 



ROADS AND WALKS. 



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RIVES and walks leading from the street to the house 

 and outbuildings are things of utility and necessity, and 

 are not primarily intended as ornamentations to the 

 grounds. This idea seems to be lost sight of in studying 

 how to make these walks and drives graceful and 

 attractive. Landscape gardeners have made quite a 

 hobby of this work, and the consequence is, that in many 

 cases the driveways and the walks form altogether too prominent a feature to 

 the lawn and grounds. To be sure we would not have these indispensable 

 accomplishments made in any way crude, awkward or ungraceful. So long as 

 they must form a part of the grounds, they should be so constructed that they 

 will not mar the general effect of the whole. But in laying them out we should 

 not fail to bear in mind the fact that they are simply a necessity, and, as such, 

 should be made as nearly in harmony with their surroundings as is possible in 

 their nature to be. Many walks and drives are laid out with no especial destina- 

 tion in view. They seem to have no particular starting point, and no definite 

 object, destination or terminus ahead. They usually terminate at the starting 

 point without accomplishing anything more than a mass of serpentine twistings 

 and crawlings that weary the eye and puzzle the understanding. Such walks 

 and drives are worse than superfluous ; they are positively in bad taste. When 

 we consider the province of the walk or road, common sense will tell us that 

 the most direct course to the point in view is most natural and pleasing. Straight 

 dead lines, without a blink or a turn, are not always agreeable to the eye, and 

 should usually be avoided in landscape gardening. — Wis. Farmer. 



