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THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



Fruit Injury. 



Often fruit develops from frost-injured blossoms, but probalily never 

 except when fertilization has taken place prior to the injury. It is a 

 very common thing to find seedless apples or pears during a season 

 following a freeze at blossoming time or shortly afterward. Fig. 384 is 



Fig. 3S4. — Normal shaped' Bellflower on right; abnormal Bellflower on left because 



of frost injury. (Original.) 



Fig. 3S5. — Normal shaped Bellflower on right contains well developed seeds; abnormal 

 frost injured Bellflower on left has none. (Original.) 



a picture taken of two Bellflowers picked from the ^ame tree. One 

 apple is almost true to the type of this particular variety ; the other is 

 very much flattened and distorted. Most of the apples in the orchard 

 where these were picked resembled the latter, and it was difficult to find 



