756 Popular Editions of Station Bulletins of the 



varieties may have become obscure because never properly intro- 

 duced by the originator, or because once hampered by some defect 

 easily controlled by modern methods. Some of these old varieties 

 are worthy of as much attention from the grower as some of the 

 novelties of today. It is proposed in this popular edition to call 

 attention but briefly to some of the qualities of these varieties, but 

 full descriptions will be found in the regular edition of the bulletin. 



APPLES. 



For a general purpose, market apple, Deacon 

 Deacon Jones. Jones is well worth trial and is attracting consid- 

 erable attention in western New York. It is 

 a large apple, somewhat resembling Bellflower in shape, handsome 

 when well colored, of good, though not high quality, of mild flavor, 

 and of rather coarse texture. The ground color is yellow, which is 

 overlaid with an attractive red relieved with numerous prominent 

 dots. The skin is tough, which, with the firm texture of the flesh, 

 makes the apple a good shipper. It hangs exceptionally w r ell to 

 the tree so that there is little waste from windfalls and culls. The 

 tree is thrifty in both nursery and orchard, and bears early, annually 

 and heavily. 



Probably no new apple has been more widely 

 Delicious. talked about, more generally planted, or better 

 received than Delicious. In New York, the apple 

 is somewhat smaller and not quite so highly colored as in the orchards 

 of the west and northwest where it is proving a great commercial 

 success, but the rich, distinctive flavor of this fruit develops even 

 better in the orchards of the State. This quality, with the beautiful 

 color of the apple, recommends it for every home orchard and justi- 

 fies its trial in an experimental way for the commercial grower. 

 The fruit is large, somewhat conical in form, with light yellow 

 ground color, nearly or almost entirely overspread with dark, attrac- 

 tive red, splashed and mottled with carmine, and the flesh is pleas- 

 antly subacid, tender, juicy and aromatic. The defects of the 

 apple noted in New York are susceptibility to water-core and to 

 softening of flesh about the core and readiness to infection by the 

 spores of apple scab. 



We know of no apple that can be grown in 

 Opalescent. New York better endowed with characters fitting 

 it to compete with the showy fruit from the 

 west than Opalescent, one of the most attractive apples known. It 

 is large, shapely, nearly or quite covered with brilliant red on a 

 yellow background, a veritable feast to the eye. In quality, too, it 

 is excellent, but its season is rather short for a commercial variety, 

 as it ends in January, yet it should prove a profitable apple for the 

 fall and early winter. The young trees on our grounds are hardy, 



