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splashed with carmine, prevailing effect red; dots numerous, 

 small, grayish; stem Ys inch long, slender; skin tender, smooth, 

 waxen; core abaxile, large, open; core-lines clasping; calvx-tnbe 

 long, wide, conical; carpels obovate, emarginate; seed wide, 

 phimp, acute, 8 in number; flesh yellowish, firm, coarse, crisp, 

 tender, juicy, subacid; of good quality. 



This new variety is remarkably attractive, its size, shape and 

 color, all being most pleasing. It is not quite high enough in 

 quality to be called a first-class dessert fruit, but it is much 

 better than Ben Davis and is a splendid apple. 



Schoharie. Ealls X Korthern Spy. — Tree vigorous, upright- 

 spreading, productive ; branches stocky ; leaves numerous, 4 

 inches long, 2 1-16 inches wide, dark green, slightly pubescent, 

 with distinctly serrate margins; petiole 1% inches long. 



Season, aSTovember to March ; 2% inches by 3 inches in size, 

 roundish-conic, ribbed, irregular; cavity obtuse, shallow, narrow, 

 green ish-russeted, compressed, furrowed; basin narrow, obtuse, 

 furrowed ; calyx open, small, with short, broad, acute lobes which 

 are not separated ; color greenish-yellow overspread with a mot- 

 tled and striped dull red, prevailing effect, dull, striped red ; dots 

 numerous, small, grayish-russet, obscure; stem 1 3-16 inches 

 long, slender; skin tender, smooth, waxen, core abaxile, large, 

 very open; core-lines clasping; calyx-tube short, wide, broadly 

 conical ; carpels broad-ovate, emarginate ; seeds small, plump, 

 acute, 15 in number; flesh yellowish, firm, fine-grained, crisp, 

 tender, juicy, pleasant but mild subacid, aromatic; of good 

 quality. 



Schoharie is of proper size but somewhat dull in color. Its 

 flavor is such as to make it desirable either as a cooking or as a 

 dessert apple. It is the type of Northern Spy in shape and 

 color; the flesh, too, is that of the Northern Spy, more yellow, 

 but having the same delicious flavor and aroma. 



Tioga. Sutton X Northern Spy. — Tree very vigorous, upright- 

 spreading, dense, medium productive; branches thick; leaves 3^/4 

 inches long, 1% iuches wide, dark green, with considerable pubes- 

 cence beneath, with serrate margins ; petiole 1^/4 inches long. 



Season, December to March ; large, oblate-conic, ribbed, sym- 

 metrical ; cavity acute, of medium depth and width, greenish- 



