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found to be 50.94 per cent ; in swellings, it was 

 .">!). '20 per cent. In both samples, the contents (as 

 starch, dextrine, pentosaus, and the like) were 

 calculated as reducing sugar. In normal winter 

 twigs, the reducing sugar was 

 28 per cent; in the swellings, 

 at the same date, it was 27.1 

 per cent. Calculated to fresh 

 substance, the percentages were 



118. Swellings on pear, resulting from fruit-bearing. 

 Half six,-. 



13.74 for the twigs and 11.06 for the swellings. 

 Tli.-sc tests still further show that these swellings 

 are mechanical tissue, resulting from the strain 

 of fruit -bearing, and that they are not to be 



