ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
No. 5-101 FEBRUARY. [1896. 
D.—COLD STORAGE OF FRUIT. 
'The discovery of satisfactory methods for ee fruit either at home 
or in the colonies is obviously a matter of great importance. At home 
it would counteract the effect of a “ glut,” um enable a better price to 
be obtained for the -crop by allowing it to be placed upon the market 
over a longer interval. In the colonies it would facilitate the export of 
fruit from the southern hemisphere to the northern, and even vice versd, 
80 as to give to either a continuous supply of fruit all the year round, 
pp. 
189), the experiments made iu cold storage by t dieses of 
Agriculture and Forests in New South Wales were débéibe 
| The following further description of more detailed experiments on the 
cold storage of fruit is extracted from the eighth Annual Report on 
Experimental Farms: (1895), presented to the Canadian Government 
‘by William Saunders, Esq., F.L.S., S Dominion Esperi mental 
Fets Ottawa (pp. 103-105) :— 
Nova Scotia has marked an era in her horticultural miaa by the 
establishment of a school of horticulture, under the trol of the 
Provincial Fruit Esowdar Association, and the diccetónibin of Prof. 
E. E. Faville. This is the only school of its kind in Canada, if not in 
America. 
: The great verc Ferri by Canada in her exhibit of fruits at the 
opening of the World's Columbian Exposition, in May 1893, was, in a 
large measure, due » vh cold storage facilities afforded by the World's 
Fair authorities, and but for the unfortunate burnin 
have been much more extensive and varied. The fact, however, that 
summer and autumn apples, like Dede of Oldenburg, St. Lawrence, 
and Wealthy, were placed in good condition upon the tables during the 
months of May and June, gave food for thought to the thinking mind, 
and raised the question of the usefulness of the system to the com- 
mercial grower and the shipper of fruit. 
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