132 THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 



Skin tough, beautiful clear yellow, becoming deeper yellow as the ripening 

 season advances, roughened with capillary netted russet lines and russet dots. 



Calyx tube not large, conical to elongated funnel-form, sometimes meeting 

 the core. Stamens median or below. 



Core medium to very large, abaxile ; cells fairly symmetrical, partly open to 

 wide open ; core lines meeting when the calyx tube is conical, clasping when it 

 is funnel-form. Carpels long, ovate. Seeds very numerous, often irregular 

 in form, small to rather large, rather wide, obtuse, dark brown. 



Flesh yellowish, firm, hard, moderately coarse, juicy, agreeably subacid, good 

 in flavor and quality. 



Season October and November in Southern Ohio (i); in Western New 

 York it extends to February, and often some portion of the fruit may be kept 

 till spring (4). 



FLUSHING SPITZENBLTRG. 



REFERENCES, i. Thacher, 1822:137. 2. Kenrick, 1832:44. 3. Downing, 

 1845:139. 4. Thomas, 1849:173. 5. Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 3:71. 1851. 

 6. Elliott, 1858:133. fig. 7. Warder, 1867:515. 8. Downing, 1881:11. app. 

 index. 9. Hogg, 1884:78. 10. Lyon, Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1890:292. n. 

 Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:239. 12. Budd-Hansen, 1903:85. 



SYNONYMS. Black Spitzenberg (8). FLUSHING (10). FLUSHING SPITZEN- 

 BERG (2, 6, 7). FLUSHING SPITZENEURGH (i, 3, 4, 5, 9). 



Fruit of good color but not very good in quality. There is considerable 

 loss from the dropping of the fruit before it is fully mature. The tree gen- 

 erally has the reputation of being a shy bearer. 



Historical. This variety probably originated in America. Although it has 

 long been known in cultivation (i, 2) it is not regarded favorably by com- 

 mercial orchardists and is now seldom planted. 



TREE. 



Tree large, vigorous. Form round-headed or spreading. Tzvigs stout, red- 

 dish-brown, quite distinct from the small yellowish gray shoots of Esopus 

 Spitzenburg with which, on account of the similarity of the names, this variety 

 has sometimes been confounded. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit medium to nearly large. Form roundish conic or sometimes oblate 

 conic, obscurely ribbed, pretty symmetrical. Stem short to medium. Cavity 

 acuminate, moderately deep to deep, narrow to rather broad, smooth and red 

 or greenish, sometimes more or less overspread with greenish or red russet. 

 Calyx medium to rather small, closed or partly open ; lobes broad, obtuse. 

 Basin varying from narrow and shallow to medium in width and depth, obtuse 

 to abrupt, sometimes somewhat furrowed and wrinkled. 



Skin tough, yellow or greenish overspread with orange-red, becoming a 

 bright deep red on the exposed side, coated with a light bloom. Dots con- 

 spicuous, whitish, scattered over the base but very numerous around the basin. 



Calyx tube long, funnel-form, extending to the core. Stamens median. 



Core distant, abaxile with a wide hollow cylinder at the center, varying to 

 nearly axile ; cells pretty symmetrical, partly open or closed ; core lines clasping 



