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Grading Specimen Fruit. — Sometime ago a scale for sizing specimens of 

 apples for descriptive purposes was given in this Journal. This scale is useless 

 for any fruit beside the apple, and something more general is needed. In our 

 own Ontario Fruit Experiment Stations it has been proposed to give the 

 extreme length and the extreme breadth of all fruit in inches. 



In a letter of the 3rd prox., from T. T. Lyon, South Haven, Mich., Pres- 

 sident of the Michigan Horticultural Society, he writes on the subject as follows : 



" In the matter of grading specimen fruits — I sometime since proposed to 

 Pomologist S B. Heiges, to take the medium between the vertical and trans- 

 verse diameters of a specimen ( — |^ ) as the measure of size. He did a little 

 experimental measuring upon that plan ; and reports that in some cases, giving 

 the sarne diameter when determined as above, there was a real difference of bulk 

 of full 50% as measured by the displacement of water. Therefore I surrendered 

 at once. 



I admit that the displacement of water would be an accurate measure of 

 size. But I claim that the value of a specimen, for any useful purpose, is more 

 exactly expressed by its weight. For this reason, and for the reason also that 

 few persons would be likely to provide themselves with the needful graduated 

 vessel for measuring size by the displacement of water, I propose to drop size 

 from the list, and to substitute weight in ounce:, in the description of specimens, 

 since scales are readily accessible to every one. 



True, this would be a rather wide departure from a universal practice ; and 

 yet weight will always supply a ready means of approximately determining size 

 when needful. It is intended to describe by weight in our next bulletin. 



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