﻿Smithsonian 
  Report, 
  1943.— 
  Walke 
  

  

  Plate 
  10 
  

  

  1. 
  Millions 
  of 
  Persimmons 
  Frozen 
  Solid 
  in 
  Natural 
  Cold-Storage 
  

   Beds 
  Near 
  Peiping. 
  

  

  Note 
  the 
  bundles 
  of 
  kaoliang 
  stalks 
  placed 
  across 
  mounds 
  of 
  earth, 
  thus 
  enabling 
  the 
  cold 
  air 
  to 
  pen? 
  t 
  rate 
  

   under 
  the 
  fruit. 
  Thin 
  mats 
  are 
  spread 
  over 
  the 
  top. 
  (Photograph 
  by 
  P. 
  H. 
  Dorsett, 
  courtesy 
  U. 
  S. 
  

   Department 
  of 
  Agriculture.) 
  

  

  2. 
  Blight-resistant 
  Chinese 
  Chestnut 
  Trees 
  (Castanea 
  

   moll1ssima) 
  in 
  a 
  chihl1 
  province 
  orchard. 
  

  

  Xote 
  the 
  healing 
  scars 
  of 
  branches 
  killed 
  by 
  the 
  blight 
  and 
  the 
  crop 
  planted 
  beneath 
  the 
  trees. 
  American 
  

   chestnut 
  trees 
  would 
  have 
  died. 
  (Photograph 
  by 
  F. 
  N. 
  Meyer, 
  courtesy 
  U. 
  S. 
  Department 
  of 
  Agri- 
  

   culture.) 
  

  

  