VARIETIES OF APPLES 257 



nual bearing. Salome originated about 1853 in Ottawa, Illinois, 

 in which state it is chiefly grown. 



Tree vigorous, large, upright, dense. Fruit medium in size, round-oblate, 

 obscurely ribbed, usually symmetrical; stem long, slender; cavity large, 

 acute, deep, broad, often compressed or obscurely furrowed, thinly rus- 

 seted; calyx small, closed; basin often depressed, narrow, furrowed and 

 wrinkled; skin thin, tough, smooth, pale yellow mottled and blushed with 

 red and obscurely striped with carmine, marked toward the cavity with 

 gray scarf-skin and covered with bloom; dots conspicuous, pale gray, often 

 areolar with russet point; calyx-tube small, cone-shape; stamens basal; 

 core large, abaxile; cells open, sometimes closed; core-lines meeting; car- 

 pels thin, smooth, concave, broadly round, sometimes emarginate; seeds 

 numerous, wide, obtuse, light and dark brown; flesh yellow, firm, fine- 

 grained, crisp, tender, juicy, sprightly subacid; good to very good; No- 

 vember to March. 



395. King David (Fig. 80). — The apples are about the size 

 of those of Jonathan and even better colored, 

 as beautiful as any in the orchard ; for, added 

 to the deep solid red color are rotundity in 

 shape and uniformity in size. The apples 

 hang long on the tree, but for late keeping 

 should be picked as soon as overspread with 

 red. The flesh is firm, crisp, tender, spicy, t- • o- 

 and juic}^ The chief fault of the fruit is a * David, 

 tendency to decay at the core when over-ripe. 



King David was found in a fence-row in Washington County, 

 Arkansas, in 1893. 



Tree vigorous, healthy, hardy, productive. Fruit of medium size, round- 

 conic, slightly ribbed; stem long to medium, slender; cavity moderately 

 deep and broad, usually russeted; calyx small, closed; basin medium in 

 depth, someAvhat abrupt, furrowed; skin thin, tender, smooth; color pale 

 greenish-yellow, almost entirely overspread with a very attractive deep 

 dark red, changing to scarlet; core rather large, open, abaxile, with clasp- 

 ing core-lines; calyx-tube long, narrow, funnel-shaped; flesh distinctly 

 yellow, firm, crisp, moderately tender, juicy, brisk subacid, spicy and 

 aromatic; quality good to very good; November to February. 



396. Rome Beauty (Fig. 81). Rome. — Rome Beauty is a 

 desirable commercial apple in all apple regions except north- 

 ern ones, where it is precariously hardy. The trees, while of 

 but medium size, are vigorous, come in bearing early, load with 



