390 Jiiinnal nf AgricuUtue, Victoria. [10 July, 1917. 



those similarly lettered in Plate 103. Figures (e), (/), {g), (h), and 

 {i)> (j)j (^)y (0 are London Pippin and Rome Beauty flowers respec- 

 tively, showing correspondingly similar conditions of the vital organs 

 of the blooms of these varieties. 



Plate 105 shows two decentralized flowers ; Fig. 1 is Jonathan and 

 Fig. 2 is Bellflower. In mounting these specimens to be photographed 



Plate 105. — Decentralized Flowers. 

 Fig. 1 — Of the Jonathan. Fig. 2. — of the Bellflower. (5-6ths natural size.) 



the writer was careful when decentralizing the various organs to see 

 that they should occupy positions as relatively near each other as they 

 did when the flowers were intact. 



In order to arrange the organs of the flowers as shown, cross 

 sections of the ovaries were first made and placed in the centre. Then 



