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Winesap group. — Winter apples, medium to large in size, dark 

 red, rather solid and of fine grain, of good but not high quality, good 

 keepers. Apples of the South and West. 



Arkansas, Oliver, Winesap. 



Yellow Bellfiower group. — Medium to large apples, characteris- 

 tically oblong conic, predominantly yellow, with a large somewhat 

 remarkably open core. Flesh firm, crisp, aromatic and of high 

 quality for culinary purposes. 

 Barry, Mason Orange, Yellow Bellfiower. 



Of the following groups no variety is of special importance in 

 New York: Lawver, Limbertwig, Longfield, Lowland Raspberry, 

 Newtown Spitzenburg, Ralls, Ramba, Red Astrachan, Rome, Sweet 

 Bough, Vandevere and Yellow Transparent. 



Seedless apples are not new though the stir 

 Seedless made about one variety a few years ago might have 

 apples. led those uninformed into thinking them one of 



nature's newest and most marvelous developments. 

 Yet both Greek and Roman writers describe them and references 

 to them have not been uncommon down through the pomological 

 ages. However, we know nothing of how they arise, so are working 

 in the dark in any attempt to secure new varieties of apples without 

 seeds; and each of the old varieties has too many bad qualities to 

 make propagation merely for seedlessness advisable. But a seedless 

 and coreless apple as good as Baldwin or dozens of other sorts would 

 almost revolutionize apple growing; so it is worth while to do breed- 

 ing work with these peculiar fruits, though the very factor that 

 makes them valuable adds double difficulty for the breeder. Some 

 seeds are borne on every " seedless " apple tree, however; and no 

 one seems to know whether these seeds will or will not tend to pro- 

 duce trees bearing similar fruit. References have been found to 

 nearly 40 seedless apples reported in the United States within the 

 past twenty years; and the Station has upon its grounds trees of 

 nine such varieties. We have already begun crossing and other 

 breeding work with them, and will be glad to have cions or buds 

 of other seedless sorts with the hope that from some existing variety 

 may be bred a worthy variety without seeds. 



