U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY— BULLETIN NO. 40. 



B. T. GALLOWAY, Chief nf Bureau. 



COLD STORAGE, WITH SPECIAL REFER- 

 ENCE TO THE PEAR AND PEACH. 



BY 



G. HAROLD POWELL, 

 j Assistant Pomologist in Charge of Field Investigations, 



AND 



S. H. FULTON, 

 Assistant in Pomology. 



POMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS. 



Issued September IS, 1903. 



WASHINGTON: 



government printing office. 



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