Misc. Pub. No. 168. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture 



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APPLE INJURIES 

 A, B, Transit bruising on Yellow Newtown. Apple taken in late March from bottom layer of a floor box 

 in a refrigerator car; C, Rome Beauty apple showing (a) water-soaked condition of flesh characteristic of 

 transit injury; (6, c) ordinary "box" bruises; D, transit bruising on Winesap; E, transit bruising on 

 Delicious; F, Rome Beauty apple showing water-soaked flesh underlaid by a brown region. Both 

 conditions are characteristic of transit injury on ripe apples. Note vascular browning. 



