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under the joint auspices of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the Air Cargo Institute of California, the Southern California Floral Association, and the Lockheed Corporation.
The Floral Association will provide flowers of different varieties of sweet peas, carnations, daisies, stocks, roses, orchids, and gardenias for use in making the tests.
The first of the tests will sinmlate flight in cargo aircraft, which is unpressurized, unrefrigerated, and not humidified. Other tests are designed to show the effects of shipment in pressurized aircraft where temperature and humidity can also be controlled. The effects of high altitudes will be studied in two of the tests.
B. A. Rose is in charge of the mechanical research for Lockheed which is providing facilities for the test program. W.T. Pentzer and W. R. Barger, storage and shipping specialists of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering with headquaters at Fresno, Calif., will inspect and judge the flowers to determine any change in color, freshness, firmness, texture, and fragrance and make other records. They will make an official report on their findings.
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