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Northern Spy group. — Large, striped red, roundish oblate, ribbed, 

 delicate bloom, juicy, crisp, fine grain, of highest flavor and quality. 

 Fastidious as to soils but probably can be grown in congenial loca- 

 tions in all but the coldest portions of the State. 

 Melon, Northern Spy, Ontario, Oswego, Schoharie. Wagener. 



Oldenburg group. — Medium to above in size, variously striped 

 with red, generally ripening in fall and of comparatively short season. 

 Tart, culinary apples with but few dessert sorts. Russian. Prob- 

 ably the most cosmopolitan of the groups here listed — some members 

 succeeding in all parts of New York. 



Anis Rose, Autumn Streaked, Oldenburg. Gravenstein Section: Banks, 

 Gravenstein. 



Reinette group. — With few exceptions rather large in size, of green 



or yellow ground color, with or without blush, and generally of 



good quality. A large and poorly defined group which is here divided 



into four sections. Nearly all of the members, with the exception 



of a few in the Newtown section, thrive in New York; but not many 



of them in the northern district. 



Fall Pippin Section: Boiken, Fall Pippin, Hawley, Lowell, Maiden Blush, Winter 

 Banana. Rhode Island Greening Section: Autumn Swaar, Northwestern Green- 

 ing, R. I. Greening. Newtown Section: Clinton, Green Newtown, Grimes, Peck 

 Pleasant, Winchester, Yellow Newtown. Swaar Section: Mann, Seneca Favorite, 

 Swaar. 



Romanite group. — Variable in size, highly colored, from poor to 

 good in quality, keeping very late. Mainly southern apples. 

 Pennock, Stark, York Imperial. 



Russet group. — Ranging from small to above medium in size, 

 russet colored, with peculiarly fine-grained, dense texture, sprightly 

 flavor and good-keeping quality. Some member succeeds in each 

 of the New York districts. 



Golden Russet, Roxbury. 



Tompkins King group. — Early winter apples, large, attractively 



striped with red, variable but symmetrical in form, of superior 



quality and characteristic dense, coarse texture and aromatic, 



yellowish flesh. Especially suited to the western New York districts. 



Hubbardston, Ribston, Tompkins King. 



Twenty Ounce group. — Large, late fall, broadly splashed red 

 apples, roundish in form, of good quality and with a coarse, yellowish, 

 aromatic flesh. Grown more or less generally in all but the most 

 northern districts. 

 Collamer, Twenty Ounce. 



Wealthy group. — Fruit undersized on old trees. Early and 

 abundant croppers. Hardy and adapted to all of the apple districts 

 of New York. 



Peter, Wealthy and several Minnesota seedlings. 



