HOW TO MAKE A FRUIT-ROOM. 



fastened to the matchboard outside, so that an entry would be 

 difficult. This is advisable also to keep out rats. 



Inside Shelves, on which to lay the fruit, are readily fixed at 

 the sides. First place uprights 2 by 1J from the ground to the 

 roof, and then attach bearers 2 by f on this to the quartering. 

 I find 1 foot between the shelves a very convenient distance ; this 

 places the lowest shelf 6 inches from the ground, making six 

 in all up to the eaves. The shelves are made of f matchboard, 



and need not quite meet each other, so as to allow a slight circu- 

 lation of air. Upon this we place lengths of clean wheat straw, 

 so that the fruit shall not quite touch the shelves. In the centre 

 of the fruit-room we have a narrow table with a raised edge, 

 made of three lengths wide of matchboard set on trestles ; this 

 is useful to set up exhibition collections or to show special 

 samples. 



Names.— Get a slip of zinc 4 inches long, turn up one end 

 1 inch at an angle of 45, and then slit this angle three times, and 

 bend it so that it will hold a neat card ; the other end can be 

 slipped under the straw. 



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