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from young trees is more severely 

 attacked is strikingly confirmed by the 

 fact that fruit from Northern Tas- 

 mania has shown a higher percentage 

 of bitter pit than that from the south 

 of the island. Fruit growing in North- 

 ern Tasmania is comparatively a new 

 industry and a very large proportion 

 of the trees there cannot be more than 

 ten to twelve years old in the orchards 

 which have been planted for commer- 

 cial purposes. 



In keeping with this view, West 

 Australian fruit is often found to be 

 badly affected, and it is known that a 

 large proportion of the apple trees in 

 that state are still comparativley young. 

 It must not be forgotten that the fruit 

 referred to, which was found to be 

 badly affected on reaching London, had 

 been placed on board comparatively 

 free from any visible sign of pit. Kept 

 at the proper temperature, it has been 

 experiementally proved that the devel- 

 opment of pit would have been re- 

 tarded, but at the same time it suggests 

 that many of these apples, if allowed to 

 remain on the trees, would have become 

 pitted. 



In the experimental orchard in West- 

 ern Australia, the Cleopatra trees were 

 only ten years old when the fruit was 

 picked, and this will partly account for 

 the high percentage of pit in a season 

 particularly favorable for its develop- 

 ment. Just as the proper regulation of 

 the temperature controls the pit in cold 

 storage, so will the proper system of 

 pruning in the orchard control it in the 

 fruit still growing on the tree. 



In seeking for the cause of this dis- 

 ease, we are at the same time endeavor- 

 ing to discover how to prevent it, for 

 by removing or counteracting the cause 

 the effect will not be produced. Even 

 although the cause is discovered, it is 

 not always possible to get rid of it, and 

 then we seek to minimize its effects. 

 According to the nature of the cause or 

 the supposed cause, so will be the 

 nature of the remedial measure. 



In France the insect origin of the 

 disease is generally accepted, and ac- 

 cordingly the measures recommended 

 are those calculated to destroy in- 

 jurious insects. But we have found that 

 the disease is produced even when 

 insects are excluded, as in the case of 

 apples grown inside calico bags, so that 

 the special disease of bitter pit does not 

 originate in this way. 



In America it is sometimes mistaken 

 for a disease caused by a fungus, and 

 spraying with fungicides is resorted to, 



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