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amount of sugar in grams per fruit, we find that in badly frozen 

 oranges in storage it drops to less than 2 grams per fruit against an 

 average of 6.5 grams for an unfrozen fruit. The fruit remaining on 

 the tree showed almost the same difference, the frozen fruit dropping 

 to the same point, while the good fruit showed a slightly greater 

 average than the stored fruit, or 6.9 grams. The lemons again showed 

 the same kind of variation as is found in the oranges, but in a different 



TABLE 10. Per Cent Invert 



NAVEL ORANGES 



Sugar in Juice. 



EUREKA LEMONS 



TABLE 11. Per Cent Sucrose in Juice. 



(a) Fruit picked on January 13th. 



(b) Successive new lots picked on date given. 



