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should be placed. The fruits are large, yellow, blushed with 

 dull red, with remarkably yellow flesh, which is juicy, pleasantly 

 acidulous, and very good. The trees are slow-growing but 

 eventually attain large growth, and are very hardy and fruitful. 

 Gibb originated with George P. Peffer, Pewaukee, Wisconsin. 

 The variety was first described in 1884. 



Tree vigorous, upright-spreading, slow in growth, very hardy and very 

 productive. Fruit large, round-oblate; stem short, thick; cavity wide, 

 deep, regular; calyx of niedimn size, open; basin very wide, shallow, 

 wrinkled; skin thin, yellow, blushed with dull red; dots white, minute; 

 flesh remarkably yellow, firm, crisp, juicy, pleasant acid, astringent, 

 sprightly; fair to good; early. 



442. Transcendent (Fig. 108). — For many years Transcend- 

 ent was the most popular crab-apple in 

 America, its beautiful color and high 

 quality commending it. The trees, also, 

 are vigorous, hardy, and very productive. 

 It is, however, a little too early in season 

 for either home or market, and, with the 

 .advent of later and even handsomer and 

 better flavored varieties, its popularity be- 

 gan to wane. It seems first to have been Fig. 108. Tran- 

 mentioned in 1844, but it was grown long 



before this. How long, or where it originated is not known. 



Tree large, very spreading^ drooping, dense, with stout, curved and droop- 

 ing branches. Fruit large, round or round-oblong, flattened at the ends, 

 ribbed; stem long, stout, bracted; cavity narrow, shallow, obtuse; calyx 

 large, closed; lobes long, leafy, reflexed; basin shallow, wrinkled; skin 

 thin, yellow with bright red cheek, overspread with bloom, bright red; 

 calyx -tube conical; stamens marginal; core medium size; cells closed; 

 flesh yellow, crisp, juicy, fine, somewhat astringent, subacid; very good; 

 late August to the middle of September. 



443. Florence is remarkable for the beauty and high quality 

 of its fruit and the fruitfulness of its trees and is desirable in 

 every way for an early crab for either home or market planta- 

 tions. Possibly the fruits fail somewhat in being more or less 

 austere and astringent, but nevertheless they are rated by all as 

 good in quality. This is another of Peter Gideon's crabs and 

 was first described in 1886. 



