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CCCCXLI.—STORING HOME-GROWN FRUIT. 
A cheap and effective means for storing home-grown apples and pears 
would greatly increase the value and usefulness of these fruits. The 
elaborate an costly fruit-rooms attached to large country houses are 
beyond the reach of persons of moderate means or of small marke 
growers. A simple and practical means of storing fruit would raed ~ 
to be brought to market over longer periods, and to some extent obvi 
the annual and wasteful glut which discourages i -— grower by reducing 
the price without giving much bene o the consumer. 
In the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (vol. xviii 
pp. 145-148), a description by Mr. George Bunyard of a fruit room 
devised by him is published with an illastration. It is 30 feet long by 
12 feet wide, is capable of holding 300 kinds of fruits, and costs 
about 307. 
Mr. Bunyard has been gcod enough to eÀ—MMÀ some further 
m Án of this fruit room to Kew. In view its simple con- 
and general usefulness, it is — 9 that its merits should be 
more widely known. The following account is therefore reproduced. 
The illustration has been lent by the Council of the Royal Horticultural 
Society :— 
PARTICULARS OF FRviT Room. 
Foundation —First level the soil and dig out holes for the corners 
large enough to admit brick piers 14 by 14 inches, or stones about 1 foot 
square ; fix an iron rei in the centre to receive the corner = oma of the 
struct ome provision for air, sueh as air bricks, o aperture 
cavers outside xd dés with perforated sine, should be provided just 
above the ground line. "d over 20 feet long an extra foundation should 
be put in at the half "n nee. 
Main Posts.— Make these 6 feet long, 6 inches square, ahd prepare a 
hole in the foot to receive the dowel mentioned above; this will keep 
