Archive image from page 68 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer06bail Year: 1906 STORAGE STORAGE 1733 tion; in fact, the different varieties of apples require different degrees of temperature, and it took a long time to learn this. Again, it is almost i
Archive image from page 68 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer06bail Year: 1906 STORAGE STORAGE 1733 tion; in fact, the different varieties of apples require different degrees of temperature, and it took a long time to learn this. Again, it is almost impossible to maintain the same temperature in all parts of a large building or even in one large room. As a rule, each variety of fruit or vegetable should have a separate room, and the keeper should know what degree of tem- perature is best for each. Some varieties of apples have the reputation of keeping better in cold storage than others, but it is only because one had a tempera- ture suited to it and the other did not. A car-load of apples may have come from the orchard where the fruit had been exposed to the hot sun and attaiued a tem- perature of perhaps 80° and was then placed in a room with other car-lots which were at the proper tempera- ture. In twelve hours the temperature in the room would rise to 50°, and with the best of management it would require forty-eight hours to reduce the tempera- ture to the proper mark; this could not be otherwise than injurious to the entire lot. It has not yet been fully settled what is the proper degree of temperature to be used in keeping the various fruits and vegetables. Keepers of cold storage plants differ somewhat on this point, and it is probable they all try to maintain a degree too low for most of our prod- ucts. The writer believes the temperature most suit- able for all (if we must use one for all products) would be 34°. It is not important what kind of a building is used, whether wood, stone or brick, but it is very des
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