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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ October, 
harden the plants off well. This season I have planted it in a small bed with 
Coleus Verschaffelti, and the effect was very good; hut I purpose another 
season to employ it principally for edging and line work, as for such pur¬ 
poses it is admirably adapted. 
Wrotham Park , Barnet. John Edlington. 
IMPROVED FRUIT SHELVES. 
QJTT^HATEVER conduces to the better preservation of choice dessert 
klPj wi n ^ er fruits—Pears, Apples, &c., or leads to improvement or in¬ 
creased convenience in the arrangements of a fruit room, is worthy 
of adoption; and such we believe to be the Fruit Shelves, met 
with by Mr. Robinson during his French rambles, in Baron Roths¬ 
child’s garden, and which are represented in the subjoined figure, for which 
and the annexed particulars we'are again indebted to the handy little 
volume of Gleanings , already noticed. 
The Shelves in question, which are of oak, supported by oak uprights, 
instead of being fixed, as usual, round the sides of the fruit room—though 
they might be so placed—are arranged in several sets along the room ; they 
are just wide enough to hold five rows of Pears on each side, and are 
placed at such a slope that the fruit can be readily seen without being 
handled, or in any way disturbed. This alone is a great advantage; but 
another has been at the same time secured. The slightly concave space 
upon which each line of fruit rests, is made of two laths placed a small 
space apart, so that the air can flow up between the fruit, no two of which 
are allowed to touch each other. Thus it is found that they keep in a 
