Agree with the above, but as a sidebar a couple of notes on coding style that might help readability (none critical, just some things I've picked up bashing around the Monastery):

• No need for the "&" in front of your subroutine calls, or the space just preceding the opening parens. Include the empty set of parens if not passing a value.
• No need for the "#" on the blank lines (visual noise)
• No need for the "()" around a single my variable declaration</code>
• Might want to consider an alternative to spelling out your hash values with the 'corresponds to' arrow =>
• And personally, I like my variable and subroutine names in all lowercase (I save the title case for my module names.

So,

my %fruits  = ( "Apples"  => 3, 
                "Oranges" => 6 );
print_hash(();
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A great book: Perl: Best Practices.

Good luck!

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