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to be a really valuable apple for dessert use but it is too mild 

 in flavor when cooked to make it desirable for culinary use. 

 It is medium or above in size and attractive in appearance, 

 having a fine blush over a yellow background. Basin broad, 

 shallow, wrinkled; calyx lobes rather large and long; cavity 

 moderately deep, slightly russeted; stem medium; flesh tinged 

 with yellow, fine grained, moderately juicy, mild sub-acid, good 

 quality. Season, September. 



Colton. — Received cions from Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, 

 N. Y., in 1888 and topworked them on a bearing tree. The tree 

 is upright in habit, has made a good growth but has not, as yet, 

 been productive. Season, last ofAugust. 



Fruit medium size, roundish, narrowing towards either end; sliin pale 

 greenish yellow, dotted with large faint greenish dots when ripe. Calyx 

 medium, nearly closed; segments rather long, reeiirvo-d; basin small, cor- 

 rugated; stalk medium, stout; cavity small, shallow. Flesh whitish, mild 

 sub-acid, juicy, rather coarse-grained, crisp, fair quality. 



Edwards Favorite. — Received cions from Benj. Buckman, 

 Farmingdale, 111., and topworked them on a bearing tree in 1889. 

 It came into bearing six years later and since then has given 

 satisfactory yields. The tree makes a vigorous, spreading 

 growth. 



Fruit medium size, oblate, symmetrical, slightly ribbed at basin. Cavity 

 may be nan-ow, deep and sometimes russeted, or it may be rather broad 

 and shallow; stem long, slender; basin moderately narrow and deep; 

 calyx closed; skin greenish yellow lai'gely striped and washed with pale 

 red and sprinkled with russet dots. Flesh white, slightly tiuted with 

 yellow, modex^ately juicy, rather coarse, breaking, sub-acid, fair to good 

 quality. Keeps well till June, and specimens have been kept here till the 

 following fall without putting them in cold storage. 



Glass Green. — A Russian apple received from T. H. Hoskins, 

 Newport, Vt. Topgrafted in 1888 and bore its first fruit in 1895. 

 The tree makes a vigorous growth with spreading branches. 



Fruit large, oblate to oblate-conic, or oblong, very irregular, sides 

 unequal; cavity moderately broad, shallow, thinly russeted; stem short, 

 slender, itomentose; basin broad, deep, abrupt corrugated; calyx large, 

 open, lobes slightly reflexed. Skin green, sometimes has a faint blush 

 where exposed, dotted with whitish or russeted dots and covered with a 

 very thin white bloom. Flesh greenish, moderately juicy, coarse, sub- 

 acid, fair quality and (Invor; liable to water cores; core large, closed. 

 Season last of July and first of August. (Cannot be recommended. 



