THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 27. MAY, 1899. No. 5. 



MORE RECENT MINNESOTA APPLE SEEDLINGS 

 OF VALUE. 



J. S. HARRIS, LA CRESCENT. 



In all the 500 or more seedling- varieties of apples of Minnesota 

 origin shown at the late state fair, which were the cream of at least 

 2,000 varieties that have fruited in the past season, it is not at all un- 



NELSOX SEEDLING. 



Tig. 1. Description.— Size, 5% to 7; weight, 5 to 7 ounces; form, roundish oblate, 

 slightly conical; color, greenish yellow and red, striped with numerous gray 

 dots over the surface; stalk, long, slender and elastic ; cavity, regular, broad 

 and deep; calyx, open, broad, shallow, wrinkled; flesh, white, half fine, tender; 

 flavor, pleasant acid, inclining to sub-acid, good; season, a little later than 

 Duchess, or late August and early September. 



Samples for testing were furnished by R. C. Livingston, Spring Valley, and 

 are from the original tree. 



likely that there are a score or more having- peculiar merits that will 

 make them valuable additions to our pomology. The five minutes 

 alloted to this paper will allow the mention of but few of them 

 and the doing of justice to none of them. 



