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Tree hardy, a good grower and fairly productive. Fruit of good 

 size, good quality and fairly good, red color, but not brilliant 

 enough to be especially attractive. As grown at the Geneva Station 

 it has come into bearing young and been very productive. Accord- 

 ing to L. A. Goodman, it is being planted in the Ozark region of 

 Southwestern Missouri, especially where a late keeping fruit is 

 desired for export trade. It originated in Indiana (i, 4). 



TREE. 



Tree vigorous; branches long, moderately stout. Form upright spreading, 

 open. Twigs medium in length, curved, generally stout; internodes short to 

 medium. Bark brown or reddish-brown mingled with olive-green, partly 

 mottled with scarf-skin ; pubescent. Lenticels vary from moderately numer- 

 ous to scattering, medium to large, roundish or oval, raised, conspicuous. 

 Buds medium to large, broad, obtuse, free, somewhat pubescent. Leaves 



large, broad. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit above medium to large. Form roundish oblate to roundish inclined 

 to conic. Stem medium, often obliquely set under a very prominent, fleshy 

 lip. Cavity acute to sometimes obtuse, rather deep, broad, sometimes symmet- 

 rical but often furrowed, usually with conspicuous outspreading russet. 

 Calyx small to medium, partly open or closed. Basin abrupt, medium in width 

 and depth, usually symmetrical, often wrinkled. 



Skin rather thick, tough, smooth, yellow blushed and mottled with a dark, 

 usually rather dull red, with splashes and stripes of carmine, often marked 

 with grayish scarf-skin near the cavity. Well colored specimens are nearly 

 covered with red. Dots medium, pale or russet, scattering. 



Calyx tube rather long, narrow, funnel-shape. Stamens marginal. 



Core abaxile, medium ; cells usually unsymmetrical, open ; core lines clasp- 

 ing. Carpels much concave, elliptical, emarginate. Seeds numerous, dark, 

 medium or below, plump, roundish, obtuse. 



Flesh tinged with greenish-yellow, firm, rather coarse, crisp, neither tender 

 nor very juicy, mild subacid, good for either cooking or market. 



Season January to May or June. 



COFFELT. 



REFERENCES, i. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:236. 2. Stinson, Ark. Sta. Bui, 

 60:127. 1899. 3. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 48:39. 1903. 

 SYNONYM. Coffclt Beauty (3). 



As grown at this Station the fruit is too small to be valuable for 

 an apple of the Ben Davis class, to which this apparently belongs. 

 Like Ben Davis, it is quite liable to be roughened by spray. It is a 

 little superior to Ben Davis for eating. Some nursery catalogues 

 state that it is a seedling of Ben Davis. 



