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Synonyms. Malinowskoe (i. 2). Malinoifskoe (3). No. 288 (3, 5, 8). 

 Raspberry (3, 4, 5, G, 7. 8, 9). Raspberry ( i, 2). i?t'rf Check (6). 



A Russian apple, small, fine dark red, sprightly subacid ; season Julj- and 

 August. Hansen states (8, 9) that it is exceedingly productive and a good 

 substitute for Red June where that variety winter-kills. 



RED AND GREEN SWEET. 



Referexces. I. Coxe, 1817:162. 2. Thacher, 1822:129. 3. Kenrick, 1832: 

 38. 4. Thomas, 1849:135. 5. Elliott, 1854:176. 6. Downing, 1857:221. 

 7. Hooper, 1857:78. 8. Warder, 1867:729. 9, Downing, 1872:10 index, app. 



Synonyms. Large Red Sweeting (5). Large Red .a.xd Green Sweet- 

 ing (2). Prince's Large Red and Green Sweeting (i). Prince's Large 

 Red and Green Szvccting (3). Prince's Red and Green Szvcet (5). Red 

 Bough (5). Red and Green Sweet (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9). Red and Green Sw'eet- 

 ING (3). SaiUe Szceet (9). Virginia Sz>.'cet (9). 



This is a very large green apple, striped with red, rather attractive when 

 well colored. It does not rank very high in flavor or quality but is suitable 

 for baking. Season August and September. The fruit does not last long 

 after it becomes ripe. The tree is medium to large, moderately vigorous to 

 vigorous, long-lived and a reliable cropper yielding heavy crops annually. 

 Although some find it a profitable apple to grow for local market it is not 

 worthy of being recommended for general planting. 



Historical. This is an old variety which was described by Coxe (i). 

 It was formerly grown to a comparatively limited extent in some portions 

 of New York and in adjoining states. Occasionally a tree of it is still 

 found in some of the oldest orchards of the state but it is fast going out 

 of cultivation. 



Tree. 



Tree large. Form upright spreading to roundish, open. Tzcigs short, 

 straight, stout with large terminal buds ; internodes short. Bark brown 

 mingled with olive-green, heavily coated with gray scarf-skin; pubescent. 

 Lenticels scattering, medium size, oval, not raised. Buds large, rather 

 prominent, broad, plump, obtuse, free, pubescent. 



Fruit. 



Fruit large to very large. Form oblong conic, rather strongly ribbed; 

 sides unequal. Stem short to medium, moderately slender. Cavity nearly 

 acuminate, deep, broad, furrowed, sometimes lipped, sometimes thinly rus- 

 seted. Calyx closed or partly open ; lobes moderately long, narrow, acute. 

 Basin medium in depth to rather deep, medium in width to rather narrow, 

 wrinkled. 



Skin thin, tender, smooth, green changing to yellow, more or less blushed 

 and partly overspread with pinkish-red irregularly striped and splashed with 

 rather bright carmine. Dots conspicuous, numerous, large and scattering 

 toward the cavity, small and very numerous toward the calyx. 



Calyx tube long, funnel-shape. 



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