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EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



PLATE X. 



Fig. 



46. Sections of same, showing brown patches extending even to the core .. reduced 



47. Sections of Pomme de Ncigc when the Apples were about the size of walnuts, and 



showing the earliest Bitter Pit of the season. (Orange, December, 1911.) 



48. Pomme de Neige of normal size with Bitter Pit, (Burwood, 30.4.12.) 



49. Cross section of same, showing brown patches beneath skin and scattered through 



flesh. 



VII, — EFFECTS OF FEOST ON THE APPLE. 



(Fig. 50.) 



50. Rymer Apples, showing the effects of frost in rendering them distorted and one- 



sided, so that the " eye," instead of being at the apex, is at one side. (Harcourt, 

 18.3.12.) 



