. Elliott's fruit book;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. [from old catalog]. 42 GATHERING FRUIT. nine feet high (inside measure). In a room, of this size, 8,000 fruit can be conveniently preserved. It is surrounded by two walls (fig. 24, a and b). .A body of air is interposed between the two walls, at c, and which serves to keep the interior from exterior atmospheric influence. The walls are one foot and a half thick, and are built of wood, clay, and straw, which on account of being bad conductors, are preferable to common masonry. The ground (or floor), both in the interior, and at c, are made of the s
. Elliott's fruit book;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. [from old catalog]. 42 GATHERING FRUIT. nine feet high (inside measure). In a room, of this size, 8,000 fruit can be conveniently preserved. It is surrounded by two walls (fig. 24, a and b). .A body of air is interposed between the two walls, at c, and which serves to keep the interior from exterior atmospheric influence. The walls are one foot and a half thick, and are built of wood, clay, and straw, which on account of being bad conductors, are preferable to common masonry. The ground (or floor), both in the interior, and at c, are made of the same material as the walls. The entrance door is at the north side. In the exterior wall is a double door, d, one to open at the outside, and the other in the in- side. The door e, which is a single one, opens direct into the fruit room, and in severe weather, it is filled up with straw. Four wooden shutters, /, two in the interior, and two at the exterior wall, are placed four feet off the ground, and level, for the purpose of clean- ing and airing the fruit room, before fruit is put into it. The ceil- ing is composed of a layer of moss, maintained and covered with laths ; the outside is thatched, projecting beyond the exterior walk In the interior, benches, or shelves, (fig. 25,) from the bottom up to the ceilings, are placed a foot above one another. To facilitate the inspection of the fruit, the shelves above four feet from the ground are placed at an angle of 45 cleg., a, in the form of a stage; the lower ones are fixed horizontally, b. To ensure the circulation of air between the shelves, they are divided in five parts, and a space of an inch left between each of them ; those in front, c, are provided with aledgeboard. The centre of the fruit room is reserved for a table (fig. 24), of about six feet long by three feet broad, for the purpose of receiving the fruit previously to being ar- ranged upon the shelves. Such, then, is the mode of constructing a fruit room, by the a
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