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Clofe rooms. My experiments go 
-much further, and will, I hope, 
in future, make people aware of 
danger if they ftore up a great deal 
of fruit in a clofe room in which 
they fleep. | 
I think that nobody before’ me 
even fufpected the leaft danger of 
keeping beans, peaches, or fuch like 
fruits, in their rooms; and yet a 
fufficient number of them weuld ea- 
fily poifon an unwary perfon fleep- 
ing in a clofe room, in which an 
abundance of thefe fruits is ftored. 
The gardeners by opening a hot- 
houfe eaty in the morning, which 
has been fhut clofe during the night, 
‘or at any time in the day if the fun 
has not fhined a good deal upon it, 
are very well aware of a particular 
eppreffion they feel by entering it. 
I remember to have felt it more 
E ~ than 
“Mo. Bot, Garden, 
1893 
