HOETICULTURE. 



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a cool cellar from 1 to ii months after picking-, to insure the conversion 

 of the residual starch into sugar: 



Composition of the apple. 



The following table gives the results of the analysis of the ash of 

 the apple: 



Coiiipo.'iitioii, uf the (/.•<h. of upplc. 



"While the above analysis shows that the ashes of apples contain a considerable 

 quantity of carbonate of potassium and a small amount of the oxids of calcium and 

 magnesium, the statement should he made that these compounds do not exist in the 

 fruit itself, inasmuch as the reaction of the latter is uniformly acid. The various 

 bases which appear in the above analysis as oxids and carbonates exist in the apple, 

 for the most part, in combination with malic acid as malates. ' ' 



