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Juunud of Agriciilhirc. Vlcturia. [10 Oct., 191, 



developed ovaries which are comiected with each other, and rim in the 

 direction of the apple's length as the seg-ments which constitute it show. 

 Large clusters of apples such as this are usually produced on growths 

 resulting from ^arly summer pruning during the previous year, par- 

 ticularly when they culminate in a number of short spurs with highly 

 developed fruit buds on their points. The Jonathan specimen marked 

 (x) in plate 81 is a good illustration of this class of wood and buds. 



Plate 136 depicts a Jonathan growth developed as described in the 

 case of (x), hut instead of retaining its blossoms until the following 

 year, it burst into flower during the year in which the specimen was 

 produced. 



Plate lc6. — A growth which resulted from summer pruning and which 

 bloomed the same season. 



Ikkegularities of the Tredika Variety. 



A few years ago Mr. W. P. Chalmers, orchard supervisor in charge 

 of the Maryborough district, forwarded to the wi'iter for examination 

 some blooms of rare botanical construction found on a tree of the 

 Tredika variety growing in Mr. E. Finis' orchard at Amphitheatre. 

 Mr. Firns subsequently supplied specimens of apples from the same 

 tree, also blossoms and fruit from another tree of the same variety, which 

 ■gives iblooms of normal development. On being examined, Mr. 

 Chalmers' specimens were found to be of a rare pistilliferous character. 

 Ordinary pistilliferous apple blossoms have the normal number (five) 

 of pistil divisions, ibut without petals and stamens. The number of 



