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DESIGN FOlt A FRUIT-ROOM. 
shed, or other place equally as badly calculated for the preservation 
of the fruit, and there appears in general to be very little store set by 
them, as though they were buildings of no importance to a gardener. 
However, I differ very much from this opinion, inasmuch as I 
think great care is requisite not merely in the gathering of fruit, but 
in its being suitably housed and preserved. With this view, I have 
drawn up my ideas of a fruit room, which I have no doubt will answer 
the purpose remarkably well. 
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ventillators to admit air (3) are the Drawers in which the fruit are 
laid. (4) are cavities filled up with saw-dust to prevent the entrance 
of air (5) three sky lights (6) ventillators in the roof to allow the 
escape of foul air. (7) A walk six feet wide, all round the house with 
creepers on the front. (8J A slate with the numbers of the drawers 
and the names of the fruit within them. 
The house is 18 feet wide 
inside measure. The draw¬ 
ers are two feet six inches 
wide, three feet long, and 
nine inches deep; in each 
square of the house there 
are eighteen or in the whole 5 
house, one hundred and 
twenty-six. The tempera¬ 
ture of the house should be, 
from the time it is stocked 
with fruit until the end of 
February, from 40 to 45 
degrees, and from February to June, it should be kept about 40, and 
by no means exceed 45 degrees. 
