254 New Yoek at thb World's Columbian Exposition. 



pins have maintained iine quality after coming from cold storage, 

 while one shipment was received tliat had never been in a cold room 

 and were shown up to July first. The Fallawater, a fine apple in 

 appearance, has been least able to stand long keeping of any variety 

 that has been shown. It has invariably come from cold storage room 

 with the skin discolored from scald, and scarcely a perfect specimen 

 could be obtained. 



There is no doubt that most of our winter varieties of apples, if 

 selected with greater care and put into small packages with the least 

 possible handling and bruising, can be held and placed upon the market 

 at a much later period than has generally been supposed without the 

 aid of refrigeration. It has been quite successfully proved that a low 

 degree of temperature is not so essential as has been supposed with 

 fruit that has been very carefully handled, for during a considerable 

 period of time, apples in storehouse on the exposition grounds were 

 kept for many days in succession at a temperature of fifty-live degrees 

 and still the fruit kept remarkably well. Quite as much depends upon 

 extreme care in handling fruit when it is a question of prolonging its 

 keeping qualities as upon a low degree of temperature. 



The holding of pears in cold storage for a long period of time is 

 attended with a greater loss of fine flavor than with apples. Personal 

 experience in holding Bartlett, Clapp's Favorite, Seckel, and late 

 summer and early autumn varieties seems to demonstrate that they 

 cannot be held in temperature of thirty-six degrees longer than six 

 weeks from the time of going into cold storage without losing much 

 of their fine flavor. The Anjou, Bosc and Lawrence maj be kept for 

 a longer period of time and maintain good flavor. Winter Nelis, 

 Beurre Gris and Josephine de Malines were opened on the first day 

 of May and were held until the middle of June and the flavor was 

 well maintained, particularly in the case of the first named. On May 

 twenty-second ten varieties of pears were placed upon exhibition, for- 

 warded by Ellwanger & Barry, of Rochester, JST. Y., consisting of 

 Black Worcester, Provost, Bergamot Royal d'Hiver, Doyenne Jamin, 

 Clapp's Ifo. 64, Bergamot Heitrich, Duchess de Bordeaux, Fox No. Y, 

 Madame Plentin and P. Barry. From the care which this fruit had 

 received from the time it was taken from the trees until placed on the 

 shelves at the exposition, these varieties which had never been in cold 

 storage were successfully shown. They were held up to the twenty- 

 fifth of June, while on the fourth of July one variety. Pound, which 

 had been on exhibition since the first of May, was still shown. 



As soon as the autumn fruits began to appear the greatness of New 

 York as a horticultural State was quickly recognized in the strong 

 leading position that was taken by the State in every class of fruits as 

 they came in their season. When the Cold Storage Building at Jack- 

 son Park was burned on July ninth, the entire supply of apples and 

 pears which were stored therein were lost. Additional space had been 

 secured, to be occupied with these cold storage supplies of 1892, during 

 July and August and until the September fruits could be placed on 

 exhibition. During this period it was very diflScult to maintain the 

 exhibit and hold it up to its highest degree of excellence, by replacing 



