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cavity is usually quite small, and often in the smaller fruit is entirely 
filled with seeds. The prolific plant is unusual in its appearance. 
(Fig. 23.) 
Color variations of the fruit of the papaya are not unusual. In 
1922 the writer observed two fruits of oblong-pyriform shape and of 
slightly different color and shape from those of the other fruits on a 
pistillate plant of the dioecious kind growing in a papaya trial plat 
at the station. These fruits were heavier than other fruits on the 
same plant, probably because of their thick flesh, which was also of 
unpleasant odor and flavor and not at all like the other yellow- 
fleshed fruits of the same plant. (Fig. 24.) No seeds of reddish- 
Figure 15. — A seedless papaya produced without pollination. Such fruits usually 
fall early and those that do mature are poor in flavor 
fleshed papayas had been planted at the station during the several 
years previous. Another example in color variation was observed in 
1925. In 1924, S. C. Warner, of 1548 Meyers Street, Honolulu, was 
given a reddish-fleshed papaya from a near-by garden. The seeds of 
this fruit produced three plants. The next year two of them pro- 
duced red-fleshed fruit and the third the usual orange-fleshed fruit. 
Mr. Warner brought one of the reddish papayas to the station. 
The flesh was of a deep crimson color and was of excellent flavor. 
The seeds were germinated, and 185 of the resulting plants wore 
brought into fruit in 1926. A large percentage of them bore fruit, 
most of which had the ordinary yellow or orange flesh, a few had 
flesh of a pale pinkish color, but none had the crimson color of the 
fruit whence the seed came. None of the fruits of any of the plants 
in this experiment was of a particularly desirable flavor. The last 
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