C++ - Pointer to Vector of Pointers

Hi Experts,

I have the following class and sub-classes:

class Basket
{
public:

private:
   // Sub Class
   class Fruit
   {
      public:
       // Constructor
       Fruit(vector<FruitSegments*> & vecFruitSegments)

      private:
     AddFruitSegmentsToVector(vector<FruitSegments*> *& vecFruitSegments)
   }
     // Sub Class
   class FruitSegments
   {
      public:
       
      private:
      // Private member vars
   }

 // Private member vars
  vector<Fruit*> vecFruits;
  vector<Fruit*> vecFruitSegments;
}


The implementations:
Basket::Fruit::Fruit(vector<FruitSegments*> & vecFruitSegments)
{
  AddFruitSegmentsToVector(vecFruitSegements);
}

Basket::FruitSegments::AddFruitSegmentsToVector(vector<FruitSegments*> *& vecFruitSegments)
{
   FruitSegment *fruitseg = new FruitSegment();
   vecFruitSegments.push_back(fruitseg);
}


My question is concerned with the *& operator? Is this the correct method to add a new FruitSegment to a vector of pointers which has been passed to a method(Fruit) to another method(AddFruitSegmentsToVector)? I have tried this and it works for the first call to the object however the pointers to the FruitSegement objects don't seen to get deleted from memory???

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