STATE HOETICULTURA-L SOCIETY. 451 



YELLOW TRANSPARENT APPLE. 



Syn. — Yellow Transparent, White Transparent, Red Duck, Char- 

 lottenthaler. Grand Sultan, Russian Transparent. 



Mr. Gibb, of Abbotsford, thus describes this variety: " No. 334, 

 Yellow Transparent (Skvosnoi joltni). This is now widely known. 

 It is earlier than Early Harvest, and much like it in appearance and 

 quality." 



Yellow Transparent is one of the seven leading varieties of apples 

 recommended for planting in Wisconsin, by the Horticultural Society 

 of that state. 



Mr. Wm. Toole speaks of this variety as observed in the orchard of 

 A. G. Tuttle, of Baraboo, in the following glowing terms: " A clear, 

 waxy, white-skinned apple, of good quality, juicy and very early. It 

 is hardy, a constant and enormous bearer." (See vol. xv, p. 455.) 



Geo. P. PeflFer, of Pewaukee, at the late annual meeting of the 

 Wisconsin Horticultural Society, reports that " in his search in dif- 

 ferent orchards in Wisconsin he finds Duchess and Tetofsky the best 

 preserved varieties, although Alexander and Transparent are found to 

 be all right." Of a dozen or more Russian varieties set in his own 

 orchard he says : " Those that are satisfactory are Yellow Transpar- 

 ent, Long Arcade, Hibernal and Longfield." 



Says Farm, Stock and Home : "If the efforts to introduce Russian 

 apples into the Northwest had resulted in but this one acquisition, it 

 would amply repay all trouble and expense. It is the best very early 

 apple, pleasanter than the Early Harvest in flavor, ten days at least 

 earlier, better and younger bearer, and much superior, as a keeper, to 

 any early apple. It has that mellow, luscious appearance of the 

 Sweet June, with its minute specks. Undoubtedly it would pay to 

 plant it quite extensively near Minneapolis and St. Paul for the city 

 markets." 



J. T. Lovett, of New Jersey, says of it : " The earliest of all apples; 

 handsome and good. Of Russian origin, and like all the Russian ap- 

 ples, of ironclad hardiness. It ripens fully ten days in advance of 

 Early Harvest, Primate and other early varieties. Tree a free, up- 

 right grower, very prolific, and a remarkably young bearer, frequent- 

 ly producing in the nursery rows the second year from the bud. Fruit 

 growers in New Jersey who have this apple in bearing are realizing 

 immense profits from it." 



Dr. Hoskins, of Yermont, says: " The tree is a free and symmetri- 

 cal grower, upright when young, but spreading as it becomes older 



