

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 

 BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY— BULLETIN NO. 40. 



B. T. GALLOWAY, Chief of Bureau. 



COLD STORAGE, WITH SPECIAL REFER- 

 ; -MCE TO THE PEAR AND PEACH. 



BY 



G. HAROLD POWELL, 

 Assistant Pomologist in Charge of Field Investigations, 



AND 



S. H. FULTON, 



Assistant in Pomology. 



POMOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS. 



Issued September 18, 1903. 



WASHINGTON: 



government printing office. 



1903. 



