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Calyx tube usually rather narrow and cone-shape, sometimes funnel-shape. 

 Stamens median to basal. 



Core axile, medium, closed; core lines meeting or clasping. Carpels roundish 

 or roundish obcordate, tufted. Seeds large to below medium, narrow, long, 

 acuminate to acute, tufted, often some are abortive. 



Flesh tinged with yellow, firm, rather coarse, crisp, tender, juicy, pleasant 

 subacid, good. 



Season variable, usually extending from December to March or April, some- 

 times later. 



FERDINAND. 



References, i. Summer, Horticulturist. 4:275. 1S49. /ig. 2. Elliott, 1858: 

 ^33- 3- Warder, 1867:533. 4. Downing, 1872:175. 5. Leroy, 1873:300. 6. 

 Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1873. 7- Thomas, 1885:510. 8. Taylor, Am. Pom. Soc. 

 Rpt., 1895:193. 



Fruit of good form and size and rather attractive in color for a yellow 

 apple. It is a fine dessert fruit and a good keeper. As grown at this Station 

 it is rather slow in coming into bearing and at best is only moderately pro- 

 ductive but it bears some fruit nearly every year. It is not recommended for 

 commercial planting. Because it is excellent in quality and a good keeper it 

 may be worthy of a place in the home orchards in the lower Hudson valley 

 and on Long Island. 



Historical. Ferdinand originated with ]\Ir. Adam Minnick near Pomaria, 

 S. C. It bore its first fruit in 1848. In that locality it is a late autumn 

 variety. In 1873 it was given a place in the American Pomological Society's 

 Catalogue of recommended apples but was dropped from that list in 1899. 



Tree. 



Tree a strong upright grower in the nursery. In the orchard at this Station 

 it is a rather slow .grower with short, moderately stout branches. Form 

 spreading and open, flat at the top. Tz^.-igs upright, small to medium, straight, 

 stout ; internodes vary from long to short. Bark olive-green tinged with 

 brownish-red, in part mottled with scarf-skin, somewhat pubescent near tips. 

 Lenticels scattering, medium to large, oblong to roundish, raised. Buds 

 medium to large, broad, obtuse, appressed, slightly pubescent. 



Fruit. 



Fruit above medium to nearly large. Fortii flattened at the base, roundish 

 conic to oblate conic, often somewhat ribbed, somewhat irregular. Stem short, 

 often with a fleshy protuberance. Cavity acute, moderately shallow to rather 

 deep, rather narrow, often obscurely furrowed or compressed, often overspread 

 with russet, sometimes lipped. Calyx above medium to small, partly open or 

 closed ; lobes acuminate. Basin often oblique, usually narrow and shallow but 

 varies to moderatelj' wide and deep. 



Skin rather thin, moderately tender, deep yellow or greenish with an orange 

 blush which sometimes deepens to red. sometimes partly covered with russet. 

 Dots numerous, sometimes whitish, but usually rough russet, variable in size 

 and irregular in form. Prevailing effect greenish-yellow. 



