INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 



TEXT FIGURES. 



PAGE. 



Fig. i. Indian Apple Tree Still Standing near the Geneva Experiment 



Station in 1904 5 



Fig. 2. Collection of Varieties of Wild Apples from a Hill Pasture at 



Chittenango 6 



Fig. 2a. The Old Tree Stands as a Reminder of the Days of the Stage 



Coach and the Paring-Bee 8 



Fig. 3. Longitudinal Cross Section of an Apple Showing Internal 



Characters 34 



Figs. 4, 5. Longitudinal Sections of the Wild Crabapple Showing Internal 



Characters 35 



Figs. 6, 7. Transverse Sections of the Wild Crabapple Showing Internal 



Characters 35 



Fig. 8. Transverse Section of an Apple Showing a Closed Axile 



Core 36 



Fig. 9. Transverse Section of an Apple Showing an Open Abaxile 



Core 37 



HALF-TONE PLATES. 



FACING PAGE 



Aucuba 5 2 



Group of fruit-pickers in the Baldwin orchard of Foster Udell, Brock- 

 port, Monroe county, N. Y 56 



Bottle Greening 86 



Bullock 90 



Canada Baldwin 92 



Canada Reinette 94 



Clayton 96 



Dickinson 106 



Doctor 108 



Dumelow 112 



Dutch Mignonne 114 



English Russet 120 



French Pippin 134 



Gideon Sweet 136 



Gilpin 138 



Golden Medal 140 



Golden Russet 294 



Lankf ord 186 



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