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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIX, Issue 16, 19 October 1907, Page 27

Any person desiring a supply of apples bearing his family crest has only to send an illustration of it to certain growers at Montreuil, France, and he will duly receive the fruit the following season. The odd effect is obtained by growing apples in paper bags, which are slipped on when the fruit is about the size of a walnut. Being thus sheltered from the sun, the apples do not colour as they swell, and when fully grows still remain green or yellow. As soon as they reach their maximum size the bags that cover them are replaced by others, on the side of which the desired crest or coat of arms has been cut like a steneil. The sun can now penetrate to that part of the appl ■ exposed, and redden it thoroughly; so that when the bag is again withdrawn the device is seen standing out in red upon the green surface. To obtain the opposite result—that is, a green device on red ground — the second bag is not used, but the pattern is cut out in paper and stuck on the fruit, the sun colouring all the exposed parts but leaving green the crest or other device which the paper forms. Many Parisian fruiterers have of late years exposed for sale apples with the arms of Russia printed upon them; others have them with monograms, Christian minis, arrow pierced hearts, and other devices.

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