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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Rollins Pippin, size medium, form round oblate, color greenish yellow- 

 showing minute white dots, Mush on the sun side, calyx open in a broad 

 shallow basin, stem medium, strong, set in a medium deep, smooth, more 

 or less russeted cavity, flesh yellowish white, fine grained, crisp, flavor 

 sub-acid. Season, January to March. Origin, Olmstead county, Minn. 

 Stood the winter of 1884 and 1885 as well as the Wealthy. 



Drake, size medium, form round oblate, color greenish yellow, striped 

 on sun side with carmine red, flesh white, flue grained, juicy, pleasant 

 acid flavor, stem medium stout, cavity medium. Season, January. Free 

 annual bearer, productive. Origin, Rice county, Minn. Only valuable 

 when top worked on hardy stocks. 



Newell's Winter, size full medium, form oblate conical, color lemon 

 yellow with faint red on sun side, skin rough and covered with fine 

 brownish dots, stem short, medium strong in a deep somewhat irregular 

 russeted cavity, calyx closed, basin medium, broad and corrugated, flesh 

 yellow, fine grained, firm, sub-acid. good. Season, January to March. 

 Use, kitchen and market. Origin, Sauk county, Wis. 



Faribault, size small, form roundish, color pale green mostly covered 

 with brownish red, skin very smooth, flesh greenish white, fine grained, 

 juicy, flavor sub-acid. Season, January to March. Original tree 22 years 

 old, hardy and productive, annual bearer. Origin, Rice county, Minn. 



RED QUEEN. RUSSIAN. 



Size medium, form roundish a little oblique, color greenish yellow 

 striped with light and deep red, skin smooth. Stem short and medium 

 stout, set in a narrow russeted cavity, calyx large, half open in a broad 

 corrugated basin, flesh yellowish, a little coarse, core medium, flavor 

 pleasant and better than Willow Twig. Season, January to March. Trees 

 of this variety endured the winters of 1884 to '85 at Mr. Tuttle's place, 

 Baraboo, Wis., Wm. Somerville, Viola, Minn., M. L. Tibbetts, Dover and 

 J. H. Keel's, Rochester. 



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