118 MISC. PUB. 190, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
6. “Damage” means any injury or defect which 
materially affects the appearance, edible, or shipping 
quality. 
(a) Russeting which exceeds the following shall be 
considered as damage: 
Russeting which in the aggregate covers an area 
of more than the following specified amounts for the 
varieties listed below and for similar varieties: 
Excessively rough russeting (russeting which shows 
“frogging”’ or cracking) one half inch in diameter. 
Slightly rough russeting three fourths inch in 
diameter. 
Smooth solid or smooth netlike russeting 15 percent 
of the surface. 
Anjou Lawrence 
Bartlett Le Conte 
Clapp Favorite Lincoln 
Columbia Louise 
Diel Onondaga 
Early Harvest Ontario 
Forelle Summer Doyenne 
Flemish Beauty Vicar 
Garber White Doyenne 
Glow Morceau Wilder Early 
Howell Worden and similar varieties 
Kieffer 
Excessively rough russeting (russeting which shows 
“frogging”’ or cracking) which covers an area of 
more than one half inch in diameter in the aggregate 
on any of the following and similar varieties but 
other forms of russeting shall not be considered as 
damage: 
Angouleme P. Barry 
Bloodgood Pound 
Bose Rutter 
Clairgeau Sand 
Comice Seckel 
Drouard Sheldon 
Haster Beurre Winter Bartlett 
Gansel Seckel Winter Nelis and similar va- 
Gifford rieties 
Hardy 
Any one of the following defects or any combina- 
tion thereof, the seriousness of which exceeds the 
Maximum allowed for any one defect shall be con- 
sidered as damage: 
(6) Any limb rubs which are more than slightly 
depressed. 
Black discoloration, caused by limb rubs, which 
exceeds an area of three eighths inch in diameter 
in the aggregate. 
