352 The Apples of New York. 



Skin thick, leathery, smooth, dull yellowish-green largely overspread with 

 dull red and marked with narrow, obscure splashes or stripes of dark carmine. 

 Dots rather conspicuous, pale yellow or russet. 



Calv.v tube rather large, cone-shape to funnel-form. Stamens median. 



Core small, abaxile or nearly so; cells symmetrical, closed; core lines meet- 

 ing or, when the tube is cone-shape, slightly clasping. Carpels rather fiat, 

 roundish ovate to obcordate, slightly emarginate, mucronate. Seeds few, 

 rarely plump, wide, rather long, obtuse to acute, sometimes tufted ; often all 

 are abortive. 



Flesh whitish tinged with yellow or green, firm, a little coarse, quite crisp, 

 breaking, moderately juicy, mild subacid, fair quality. 



Season at Geneva January to May. 



VIRGINIA GREENING. 



Referexces. I. Prince, .V. E. Farmer, 8:i. 1829. 2. Kenrick, 1832:60. 3. 

 White, Horticulturist, 7:319. 1852. 4. Elliott, 1854:160. 5. Downing. 1857: 

 200. 6. Hooper, 1857:95. 7. Warder, 1867:416. fig. 8. Downing, 1869:393. 

 9. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1873. 10. Thomas, 1875:230. 11. Barry, 1883:356. 

 12. Wickson, 1889:248. 13. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:251. 14. Budd-Hansen, 

 1903:195- 



Synonyms. Green Mountain Pippin (8). Ross Greening (8). Virginia 

 Pippin^ (8). 



A large, oblate, yellowish-green apple with hard, firm flesh. In the South, 

 where it is supposed to have originated, it is valued as a late keeper. The 

 tree is large, spreading, vigorous and productive. It is but little grown in 

 this state. 



Fruit. 



Fruit medium to nearly large, uniform in size and shape. Form oblate or 

 roundish oblate varying to roundish conic, regular or nearly so, symmetrical. 

 Stem medium to long, moderatelj' slender. Cavity medium in size, acute to 

 acuminate, deep, moderately narrow to rather broad, often slightly furrowed, 

 russeted and with outspreading russet. Calyx medium or below, partly open ; 

 lobes slightly separated at the base, usually short and obtuse to acute. Basin 

 medium size, usually rather shallow but varies to moderately deep, moderately 

 wide, obtuse or occasionally rather abrupt, furrowed obscurely if at all, slightly 

 wrinkled. 



Skin thick, tough, smooth or slightly roughened with russet dots and flecks, 

 grass-green sometimes with brownish blush. Dots distinct, usually areolar 

 with russet center, whitish or fawn-colored on the blushed portion, often 

 irregular toward the ca\ity. 



Calyx tube cone-shape to funnel-form. Stamens median. 



Core small to medium, axile or w ith a narrow, hollow cylinder in the axis ; 

 cells symmetrical, closed or sometimes slightly open ; core lines meeting the 

 limb of the calyx tube or clasping the funnel cylinder. Carpels roundish to 

 broadly obovate or approaching obcordate, deeply emarginate, smooth or 

 slightly tufted. Seeds numerous, small, rather narrow, plump, acute to obtuse, 

 usually smooth. 



