APPLE BEAUTY
ONLY SKIN DEEP. TEST BY TASTE. Positive proof that beauty Is only skin deep was recently shown oy Roger B. Corbett of Rhode Island State College, who took four varieties of apples, peeled them and cut them into cubes, which he placed before eleven different men, ranging frolh bankers and professional men to farmers arid mechanics, a writer in Science tells us.
The apple that . was rated first when seen whole, shining in its brilliant red skin, ranked last in taste tho Mclntosh won first place, the Baldwin second, the Rhode Island Greening third, and the Rome Beauty last. Tho Rome Beauty, a dessert apple that is a favourite in stores and on fruit stands, when peeled was found least tasty.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 10 December 1927, Page 12
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123APPLE BEAUTY Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 10 December 1927, Page 12
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