inn 
cherries, gooseberries, grapes, pears and strawberries, not specially 
Wofs l 3lirchased from local fruit shops or from street 
» J h < 6 m ? ll0d , of treatment employed was simple, inexpensive 
and tree from danger. It consisted of immersion of the fruit for 
lining 3 per cent of commercial 
t ;"' mt '! 11 ' = U) I"' 1 ' '■"-■ '»)' formaldehyde,. The .vsuli wan to 
f". s " ;>■-•—.' dities of untreated pears pla d side 
■ ^T v ' v I in ten days become so 
mouldy and decayed as to be unusable, the treated' h 
;' !, ; ! " ' ; ■ '■!,■ ; sound. In the case of cherries and imose- 
dara iJV^d ?* 1 m the case of S ra P e s and strawberries, four 
<wjs were sufficient to render the untreated examples 
'nni Z\ T the f orres P° n din, ,, re perfectly 
VMiA< DOmnl^ l,.wl U„~ __/»** - 
Qrw^.n/1 t- xi ' '■- r "" i ' •' 1 '"~ " ! i run were per 
S,7 U lUt ' ,,,!, "" r '' 1 -'" 1 ' 1 - "" [ become «nfitfor use. 
re^rr tn ?f SerVatl J e , S Were experimentally tried but haying 
freedom ft^T ntial - POint3 ' efficienc y> simplicity, cheapness and 
heedom from dauger m its use, formalin stood easily first. 
anrfJS,Wp? 0:I " f ! ? ,lrvatinn described appearing likely 
■M'l'li^bl, lonnpom 1 s wll ( > 
WevLr^r h ri °f 19 ° 6 ' With the result t^tlTe experh 
has been 
mce of the 
,, ,,, T ' ' ' " ' 'the experience of 
concernef it * ^i C0 ? firmed so ** as home-grown fruits 
anules and hi * *? ? een extend ^ to other fruits such as 
fromoTPrl :u,a ": l Y lml1 ;ir " '■"-" , > i''M'""-l ... ; 
, I , V";: '-^" - ' I in the case of the fruits 
I dm ug 1900 , the treatment described effectively ,„vv,ut< 
„ ;•; ' ' <^,d,d account of the experience of VoG will 
rouklirn^^Tthe m tbat / f T 1905 experiments and 
taken of invUim, +i A mea ntime the present oppoi-l unity is 
^uSsal^vM^ 6 * tten J lon of CMloni,! fruit ,x porters to the 
results all eady obtained and described. 
it ^em,d<\ i ; ! . : ;"' il 'i', t fel ^ of this method of treatment is that 
d...; U ,o l, iV - h r I— "ipe, and that it 
(',, • ;. ,,'. :, . : l . th f n °f mal cour8e of ripening. The 
.I',]' y/'": 1 --•- - ho often the case when 
feature is C when or ? Anotlier **«*«* 
St& ; disaffected by the 
«i me decay is destroyed and the process is s 
- x- „„ , a D «ui C uiucS Checked. 
i...m.,s,;i s!„, ,,:.',"' "' "'"■'•■ Tl,. rn.it after being 
and dry. P ' acei1 on Bom e soft open material to drain 
o^ltll^^ 
'" '■"' •' Reiehb. f, var. 
*«™,b a new spec.es m „ s t nea ,l, ft™ 
