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Fruit. — Bloom

Mahonia. July 24th Fruit yet green, but some few beginning to turn purplish — cleaned 20 berries with cool or cold water & bit of sponge— marked each with white thread, & branch with white wool. — Plant moderately shaded. — Cut off any fruit near which had been accidentally rubbed — Bloom removed very easily. —

Sea-Kale— July 26' 11˚ 30' a.m Cleaned with sponge & cold water 20 fruit & their peduncles marked with white thread — The bloom on fruit thin, & so easily removed, yet it serves to shoot off water, to a certain extent & the sponged berries were much more easily wetted by drops. (a) (Back)

Aug 6' A great many Mahonia berries dropped off over whole plant, perhaps from very hot & dry weather — Only 5 with threads remaining & these do not differ in appearance from the others.

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Sept 29th I have compared 14 (6 dropped off of the fruit with bloom removed & they seem on the whole of less size than those with bloom. — But hardly any safe difference.

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Fruit Bloom

French Poppy

August 8' 9˚. a.m. 13 pods with petioles & crowns sponged marked with white threads 13 others left untouched marked black thread.

Sept 18th if any difference those with bloom removed have ripened first