JUDGING FRUITS 275 



by the card. The bloom should be percep- 

 tible, and any deficiency or injury should be 

 discounted. The peel should be of rich deep 

 orange color, in natural condition, and should 

 be discounted according to the degree of 

 deviation from this requirement. Rust, scale, 

 and smut to be discounted 5 to 10 points, 

 and fruit which gives visible evidence of hav- 

 ing been cleaned of these defects should be 

 subject to the same penalty. Peel which has 

 been rubbed or polished, giving a gloss at the 

 expense of breaking or pressing the oil cells, 

 should be similarly discounted. The flesh 

 should be rich, clear, and uniform, in any of 

 the shades common to fine fruits. (The color 

 of flesh should not be scored till after weight 

 and peel, further down in the scale, have been 

 determined.) 



As to weight, oranges should have a specific 

 gravity of i; that is, they should have the 

 weight of an equal volume of water. An ex- 

 cess (buoyancy) of three-quarter ounce is 

 allowed to "large " fruit, of one-half ounce to 

 " medium," and of one-quarter ounce to 

 "small," without discount. For the first one- 

 half ounce of buoyancy in excess of allow- 

 ance, a discount of i point is made> and 



