I would organize the data slightly differently. See also use strict and warnings and perldsc: 
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

# Populate Array
my @fruits = qw( Apple pear Bananna Peach );

# Populate Hash, using a reference to the array
my %fruit = (
   total => 248,
   fruit => \@fruits
);

# Next Fruit to be added
my $new_fruit = "Grapes"; 
push @{ $fruit{fruit} }, $new_fruit;

#print Dumper(\%fruit);

# Print out Total fruit and list fruit
print "There are $fruit{total} pieces of fruit. ";
print "The following is a list of the fruit \n";
for ( @{ $fruit{fruit} } ) {
    print "$_ \n";
}

__END__
Actual output
=============
There are 248 pieces of fruit. The following is a list of the fruit 
Apple 
pear 
Bananna 
Peach 
Grapes

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In reply to Re: Array in a Hash by toolic
in thread Array in a Hash by g_speran

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