CHAPTER XX 



VARIETIES OF CRAB-APPLES 



The introduction of new crab-apples in the cold Northwest, 

 where the cultivation of hardy fruits becomes more and more 

 prominent, increases the number of varieties of this fruit from 

 year to year. Twenty-four crab-apples were listed in the nursery 

 catalogues for 1923, but possibly three times as many are de- 

 scribed in the pomological literature of North America. De- 

 scriptions of crab-apples in trade publications are so scant and 

 fragmentary that they are of small use to the systematic 

 pomologist, and the varieties in this chapter are, therefore, 

 mostly those growing under the writer's observation on the 

 grounds of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station at 

 Geneva, New York. The descriptions are almost verbatim as 

 published in the author's Cyclopedia of Hardy Fruits} 



INDEX TO VARIETIES OF CRAB APPLES 



Cherry, 445 Minnesota, 435 



Excelsior, 436 Orange, 434 



Florence, 443 September, 446 



Gibb, 441 Transcendent, 442 



Hyslop, 438 Van Wyck, 433 



Large Red Siberian, 440 Whitney, 439 



Martha, 444 YelloAV Siberian, 437 



KEY TO VARIETIES OF CRAB-APPLES 



A. Apples sweet 433 Van Wyck. 



AA. Apples sour. 



B. Flesh salmon-yellow 434. Orange. 



BB. Flesh white. 



C. Flavor mild subacid or nearly sAveet : 



September and October 435. Minnesota. 



CC. Flavor subacid; September; large 436. Excelsior. 



BBB. Flesh yellow. 



C. Fruit round-ovate or not oblate. 



D. Color golden-yellow 437. Yellow Siberian. 



» Hedrick. U. P. Cyclopedia of Ilnrdii Fruits. 11)22. 



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