. 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. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. STORAGE means or by ice, cold storage can onU be accomplished by luamtdimng a de sired temperature over i long period In order to secure thi« the crmpart ments in which the products tit i-i^f are to be held must be i i 11 th in sulated from outside heat i j il I Succes
. 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. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. STORAGE means or by ice, cold storage can onU be accomplished by luamtdimng a de sired temperature over i long period In order to secure thi« the crmpart ments in which the products tit i-i^f are to be held must be i i 11 th in sulated from outside heat i j il I Successful experimental i 111 i 11 i by mechanical means was i i j li 1 1 as early as the middle of the eiglitteutli century, but no successful commercial application of cold storage was made un til after the invention of Lowe s car bonic acid" machine in 18b7 although the present growth of the indu try is due to the invention of the ammonia compression machine by Professor Carl Linde in 1875. The process was first exteu ively ap plied to the preservation of me it fa h etc., but as early as 1881 the Mechanical Refrigerating Company of Bo tonopene 1 a cold storage warehouse which m ii 1 the beginning of mechanical refri^ i tion as applied to horticultural produ i Other companies were then organ i/ i until now there are about 1 200 refii.,t-i ating plants in the L nited state t which about 600 are use<l mc th fji horticultural product ioreign emu tries are now following the esanifle cf the Lnited States, and London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Pans and other European cities offer facilities for storing such products. In the United States, Chicago is the great center for fruit storage, single firms holding as niauy as 100,000 barrels a year. Apples are the principal storage fruit, good winter sorts holding their form, color and flavor better than any other commercial fruit when held for long periods in cold storage. Another reason why the apple is a favorite in cold storage is that peo
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