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FRUIT CULTURE. 



Gardens. The following description of the process, and 

 of the chemical change produced in the fruit, is taken 

 from a paper read by Mr. B. W. Badger to a meeting of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society in August, 1890, and is . 

 reported fully in that Society's Journal, vol. xii. : 



" It is necessary to point out that evaporated fruit must 



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not be confounded with sun-dried or kiln-dried fruit ; the 

 latter are both very inferior in quality, and are in a 

 different chemical state. Sun-drying is still much used 

 in California and elsewhere, but is being rapidly super- 

 seded by the more scientific process of evaporation. The 

 description of the chemistry of this process which I am 

 about to submit to you I have selected as being the best 



