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softening, but decay spotted the skins and their color and flavor were 

 unsatisfactory for market. 



Cambodiana. — Twenty fruits which had ripened and fallen into 

 bags attached to the branches were stored in the warm room and in 

 five days three were showing decay and the flesh of others was soft 

 and watery but of fair flavor. Of 20 fruits harvested when over 

 half the surface was soft, all were fully ripe in six days, 3 having 

 started to discolor, while on the eighth day many were still in good 

 condition with flavor and color not inferior to fruits ripened on the 

 tree. Another lot of 20 fruits harvested when about half colored 

 but still firm and placed in the warm storage room, remained in good 

 condition for eight days, except two fruits which decayed apparently 

 from bruises. On the tenth day the remaining specimens were in 

 good edible condition and their smooth, spotless, yellow skins and 

 rich yellow flesh made them especially attractive. 



In the cold room, fruits which had become entirely ripe on the 

 tree were too soft and watery ; i 6 days to be considered first class, 

 while all those which had colored but had not started to soften on 

 the tree had developed a typical ripe color and were of good edible 

 quality 19 days after storing, but by the twenty-sixth day darkened 

 areas were appearing on the skin and outer flesh and the flavor had 

 somewhat deteriorated. Full-grown specimens which had just 

 started to color on the tree became whitish-yellow in 16 days and 

 softened in 26 days, but they were inferior in flavor and color to 

 those that had colored on the tree. 



Totafari. — Thirty fruits of this variety, harvested when of mature 

 size and three-fourths colored but not yet starting to soften, were 

 stored in the warm room. All were of excellent marketable color 

 and quality eight days later, except four specimens which became 

 discolored in four days possibly from small breaks in the skins due 

 to handling. Fifty full-sized fruits harvested when first showing 

 maturity in color ripened and remained in excellent condition for 

 12 days. On the fifteenth day 16 were slightly discolored, and the 

 flesh of others was watery and less palatable than when first ripe. 



In the cold room 19 out of 20 fruits of this variety which had 

 ripened on the tree were unblemished by decay 11 days after storing. 

 Other specimens picked when all the green color in the skin had 

 disappeared, but several days before they would have begun to soften, 

 remained apparently unchanged for 14 days. Xo decay was ob- 

 served until the twenty-fourth day after harvesting, at which time 

 and for nearly two weeks later the fruits were little inferior in color 

 and flavor to tree-ripened specimens. 



Sandersha. — Of 50 well-colored specimens harvested just before 

 they started to soften and placed in the warm room, all but eight 

 were free from decay and in condition for eating nine days later, 



