2194. The root-cellar should be placed beneath the office and seed shop; and the fruit-cellar below the fruit-room, and both descended to from the lobby. The great object is, to keep the air in these apartments cool; and always, as near as possible, of the same degree of coolness: and for this purpose, the windows should be small, placed below the ground level, and furnished with double or treble casements or sashes. These cellars should also be approached through double doors, for the same reason. The fruit-cellar may be fitted up with binns or cells, like a wine-cellar, in which casks and jars or sieves of fruit may be placed; and the root-cellar may have a few divisions on the ground, to keep different roots apart, and sand, to keep them of uniform plumpness or moisture.
