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fine fruit than half a bushel of small and inferior, a fair estimate being taken of the 



Fig. 52. 



References: 1, unthinned small fruits and weak growth ; 2, small proportion of flesh to stone ; 3, large fruits 

 and strong growth following thinning ; 4, large proportion of flesh to stone. (For further references, see text.) 



crude material consumed in the manufacture. On these grounds the importance of 



