Jan. 5 ,1924 
Physiological Studies on Apples in Storage 
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Delicious and Rhode Island Greening (figs. 6 and 9) softened with great 
rapidity, and after 10 days at 70° were practically full soft. Both vari¬ 
eties were softer at the end of 12 days exposure to 70° than they were at 
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Fig. 9.—Softening of Rhode Island Greening apples in storage. 
the end of 6 months at a continuous temperature of 32 0 . With Delicious 
particularly, fruit placed directly in 32° storage softened very little, even 
after several months in storage. Rhode Island Greening softened more 
