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according to the locality and the quantity purchased, 

 while the peach basket may be bought at from three 

 and one-half to four cents by the thousand, or larger 

 lots. For long distance shipment, the carrier has now 

 been generally adopted and it should not be long before 

 all of this crop will be put up in a better package than 

 the common peach basket. 



Keeping the Fruit The practice of not picking 

 this fruit until it is nearly ripe, makes the danger 

 of glutting the market much greater, and consequently 

 produces the necessity of providing some means of hold- 

 ing the crop beyond the natural season. This is done 

 to a limited extent by means of cold storage rooms or 

 refrigerator cars in shipping. While this fruit does 

 not keep in cold storage as well as the apple or pear, 

 it can be kept for a considerable time and for the local 

 markets where large quantities are grown, this is a neces- 

 sity. The temperature at which it will keep the best is 

 from thirty-two to thirty-four degrees, and with a 

 rather drier atmosphere than for the apple. 



For method of propagation, insects and fungous 

 diseases attacking the peach, see Chapters XVIII, XX 

 and XXI. 



