. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ing qualities. The results secured with Esopus (Spitzenberg) last year are il- lustrative of the efTects of this practice. ESOPUS I SPITZENBERG) EFEECT OE OVERMATURITY. Per cent physiological and fungus decay at â withdrawal from storage, and after a ten-day holding period under market conditions. The first pick -was made September 25, stored Sep- tember 26, 1913. The second pick was made October 10, and stored October 11, 1913. DECA V First iKillulrawal, Alwilh- 10 (lays .htnuiirti 12. 191'i: drawal later First pick Second pick Second ifilhdrawal
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. ing qualities. The results secured with Esopus (Spitzenberg) last year are il- lustrative of the efTects of this practice. ESOPUS I SPITZENBERG) EFEECT OE OVERMATURITY. Per cent physiological and fungus decay at â withdrawal from storage, and after a ten-day holding period under market conditions. The first pick -was made September 25, stored Sep- tember 26, 1913. The second pick was made October 10, and stored October 11, 1913. DECA V First iKillulrawal, Alwilh- 10 (lays .htnuiirti 12. 191'i: drawal later First pick Second pick Second ifilhdrawal, February 19. 19l'i: First pick Second pick Third withdrawal, April 1, 191'i: First pick Second pick Fourth willidrawal. May '(. 191i: First pick Second pick As can be seen, at the first inspec- tion the (lifl'erence in the two picks are very slight, but little decay occurring in either. At the second inspection, on February 10, which marks the usual limit of commercial storage for this variety, there was no decay in the first pick, made at maturity, and in the second. Ten days later, or by the time the fruit w^ould normally reach the consumer, the decay had increased to 25%. (one-fourth of each box) in the lot picked when over-mature, and was only in the lot picked at ma- turity. Considering the fact that the first pick was made before commercial picking for that variety could be said to have strated in that particular section, and the last pick v,'as made consider- ably before the last commercial pick- ings, it is interesting to speculate how- much of the Ksopus (Spitzenberg) from this locality was fit to use when it reached the consumers. The temperature at the time of pick- ing is a very important factor in deter- mining the length of life of the fruit. If the temperature is high at the pick- ing time, the fruit matures very rap- idly. This was the case during the past season. .\n uncommonly mild fall has BETT
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