96 EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



PLATE XIV. 



Figs. 



25. Delicious apples, showing both clean and pitted specimens (17/4/16). 



26. Rynier from old tree at Greensborough, with well-developed Pit (6/4/16). 



27. Longitudinal median section of same, showing brown tissue beneath skin. 



28. A typical example of a pitted Cleopatra apple. It was grown at Yanco Irrigation 



Orchard, and kept in ordinary storage for six months. There were thirty-one 

 distinct depressions, varying in size from a mere speck to one-quarter inch in 

 diameter, and all towards the eye end (13/9/16). 



29. Median longitudinal section of same, showing the internal browning. The trans- 



verse section passes through five distinct depressions, and the spongy tissue 

 is distinctly seen beneath each, in two instances showing a cavity. 



