VARIETIES OF APPLES 241 



Tree large, vigorous, spreading, open, drooping. Fruit very large, broad 

 and flat at the base, conic or round, often irregular; stem short, thick; 

 cavity acuminate, deep, wide, heavily russet ed; calyx large, open or closed; 

 basin deep, narrow, abrupt, usually smooth, broadly furrowed; skin thick, 

 pale yellow, mottled and blushed with bright, deep red and marked with 

 conspicuous splashes and broad stripes of bright carmine; dots numerous, 

 large, areolar, depressed, pale or russet; calyx-tube conical; stamens 

 median; core large, abaxile; cells closed or partly open; core-lines clasping; 

 carpels broadly cordate, emarginate, tufted; seeds dark brown, wide, short, 

 plump, obtuse; flesh white tinged with yellow, firm, coarse, tender, juicy, 

 subacid, aromatic; fair to good; September to December. 



363. Grosh. Large Bamho. Summer Ramho. — While the 

 apples are handsome when well-colored, they are not high in 

 quality; and the trees, though good in most characters, have 

 the fault of not being able to carry the crop, much of which 

 drops prematurely. The variety is at its best in Ohio, where 

 it is reputed to have originated about 1840. 



Tree vigorous, upright-spreading, open. Fruit medium large, round- 

 oblate to conical, regular or elliptical; stem short, thick; cavity acuminate, 

 deep, wide, often compressed, smooth and green or russeted, symmetrical 

 or gently furrowed, sometimes lipped; calyx large, open disclosing the 

 yellow calyx-tube; lobes separated at the base, long, often leafy, acute; 

 basin often oblique, large, abrupt, somewhat furrowed; skin thick, tough, 

 waxy, greenish -yellow becoming bright yellow, washed and mottled with 

 bright red and striped and splashed with carmine; dots numerous, large, 

 gray or russet, often areolar or white and submerged; calyx-tube large, 

 wide at the top, conical; stamens basal to median; core small, axile or 

 abaxile with hollow cylinder in the axis; cells closed or partly open; core- 

 lines clasping; carpels ovate, emarginate, often tufted; seeds numerous, 

 dark brown, often abortive, wide, obtuse; flesh slightly tinged with yel- 

 low, firm, coarse, tender, juicy, sprightly subacid, aromatic; good to very 

 good; September to January. 



364. Fanny. — The fruits of Fanny are beautiful and most ex- 

 cellent in quality, and the trees are very satisfactory; but the 

 apples are so deficient in size and ripen over so long a period that 

 the variety is of value only for the home orchard. Fanny origi- 

 nated at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with John K. Eshelman, pre- 

 vious to 1869, when Downing called attention to its merits. 



Tree vigorous, flat, spreading, open, with long stout branches. Fruit 

 medium size, uniform in size and shape, round-oblate, oblong or ovate, 

 regular or slightly ribbed; stem short, slender; cavity acute, sometimes 



