U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY— BULLETIN NO. 40. 



B. T. GALLOWAY, Chief of Bureau. 



COLD STORAGE, WITH SPECIAL REFER- 

 ENCE TO THE PEAR AND PEACH. 



BY 



(J. HAROLD POWELL, 

 Assistant Pomologist in Charge of Field Investigations, 



and 

 S. H. FULTON, 



A S S I S T A N T IN P OMOLOGT. 



POMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS. 



* LIBRARY 



W YORK 

 BOTANICAL 

 GARDEN 



Issued September 18, 1903. 



WASHINGTON: 



GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 



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