140 The Apples of New York. 



GIVENS, 



Rf.ferexces. I. Stinson. Ark. Sta. BuL, 49:12. 1898. fig. 2. lb., 60:129. 

 1899. 

 Synonym. Arkansas Baptist (2). 



A late keeping red winter apple fully equal to Ben Davis in quality. At 

 the Geneva Station it has come into bearing very young and so far as tested 

 has been quite productive. The tree is a moderate grower. In the nursery 

 it is a poor grower being " crooked and willowy something after the style 

 of the Willow Twig."i It may be worthy of testing for commercial purposes 

 in regions where Ben Davis succeeds. 



Historical. Originated on the farm of Mr. Givens, Benton county, Ark. 

 Noticed by Professor Stinson in 1898 as one of the promising new Arkansas 

 seedlings (i). 



Tree. 



Tree moderately vigorous ; branches rather long, moderately stout. Form 

 upright spreading, rather open. Tz>.'igs long, straight, stout; internodes 

 medium. Bark dark reddish-brown, streaked lightly with grayish scarf-skin; 

 pubescent. Lenticels scattering, large, oval, raised. Buds medium, broad, 

 obtuse, appressed, pubescent, deeply set in bark. 



Fruit. 



Fruit above medium to rather small. Form oblate or truncate to roundish 

 conic, ribbed broadly and faintly if at all, sides often slightly unequal. Stem 

 long to very long. Cavity somewhat furrowed, wide, deep, acute, with green 

 or thin russet outspreading rays. Calyx large to very large, closed or partly 

 open ; lobes leafy, long, wide, acute. Basin moderately deep to deep, medium 

 in width to wide, somewhat obtuse to very abrupt, Avrinkled, symmetrical. 



Sktn tough, smooth, yellow or greenish nearly covered with dark red 

 inconspicuously mottled and striped with deeper red. Sometimes a suture 

 extends from cavity to basin. Dots small, whitish or with russet points, in- 

 conspicuous. Prevailing effect red. 



Calyx tube funnel-form, often meeting the cylinder of the core. Stamens 

 median or below. 



Core medium to large, slightly abaxile with a rather wide hollow cylinder 

 in the axis; cells somewhat unsymmetrical, closed or slightly open; core lines 

 clasping the funnel cylinder. Carpels broadly roundish. Seeds numerous, 

 medium to large, wide, dark, obtuse. 



Flesh whitish tinged with yellow, firm, rather fine-grained, not very crisp 

 nor very tender, moderately juicy, mild subacid, good. 



Season January to May or June. 



GLENLOCH. 



Reference, i. Watts. Tcnn. Sta. Bui, 1:12. 1896. fig. 



Fruit large, closely resembling York Imperial. Tree very productive. A 

 variety of Tennessee origin which probably is not well adapted for growing 

 in New York except possibly in the southeastern part of the state (i). 



^Letter Stark Bros., Louisiana, Mo. 



