THE MINNESOTA 
HORTICULTURIST. 
VOL. 28. APRIL, 1900. No. 4 
THE OXFORD ORANGE. 
J. S. HARRIS, LA CRESCENT. 
The Oxford Orange apple is supposed to be a local seedling, of which 
only a few trees had been propagated. Thus far it has only been discovered 
in the orchard of Wm. Oxford, at Freeburg, Houston county, and of its 
history or origin very little is known. About twenty years since, Mr. Ox- 
ford planted a wagon load of trees that he had purchased from a local nur- 
seryman, who soon after went cut of business and removed from the state. 
No record was kept of the varieties, but among them were Duchess, Haas, 
Oxford Orange. 
Fameuse, Talman Sweet, St. Lawrence, Walbridge and several varieties of 
Siberian hybrids, an ‘five or six trees of this unknown variety. It came 
through the winter of 1884-5 in as good condition as the Duchess, and bet- 
ter than most of the others. The tree is a fairly vigorous, symmetrical 
grower, and has so far been very free from blight. It is an annual and very 
full bearer. 
The description is as follows: Size, 4 to 5; form smooth, roundish, slight- 
ly oblong, and often oblique; color greenish-yellow, shaded pale blush on the 
