150 THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 



to grow with an oblique axis is less marked and the fruit is less often ellip- 

 tical and more nearly symmetrical. Stem medium or short. Cavity deep, 

 acuminate to acute, broad or compressed, often sending out rays of russet. 

 Calyx' rather small to medium, closed or nearly so; lobes rather small, acute. 

 Basin medium in width and depth, furrowed and often somewhat wrinkled. 



Skin rather tough, smooth or slightly roughened with brownish-russet dots, 

 grass-green at fruit harvest but sometimes pretty yellow later, and often 

 showing some brownish or brownish-pink color, especially near the base. 

 White submerged dots are especially numerous toward the eye and whitish 

 scarf-skin stripes extend over the base. 



Calyx' tube long, funnel-shape to nearly conical. Stamens median to basal. 



Core small to medium, somewhat abaxile ; cells fairly symmetrical, closed 

 or nearly so; core lines clasping. Carpels broadly roundish or roundish 

 obcordate, emarginate, tufted. Seeds tufted, medium or above, dark, narrow, 

 acuminate. 



Flesh yellowish or tinged with green according to the color of the fruit, 

 firm, crisp, tender, moderately fine-grained, juicy, sprightly, with a fine aro- 

 matic subacid flavor, best. 



Season February to May. 



YELLOW NEWTOWN. 

 TREE. 



Tree more vigorous and more erect than that of Green Newtown the 

 branches growing more freely, the laterals showing less tendency to droop 

 and the twigs averaging somewhat longer than is the case with the Green 

 Newtown, otherwise we find that the two varieties, as Downing says (10) 

 "grow- alike." 



FRUIT. 



The technical description of the fruit of the Green Newtown applies well 

 to the Yellow Newtown in all points excepting the color of the fruit and 

 the color and flavor of the flesh. At fruit harvest the Yellow Newtown is 

 distinguishable from the Green Newtown because both the yellow and the 

 pink tones are more highly developed. When they are fully mature the more 

 highly colored apples are bright yellow often with distinct pinkish blush, 

 especially about the base. Less highly colored fruit is greenish-yellow shaded 

 more or less with duller brownish-pink through which narrow streaks of the 

 ground color often appear, combining with the streaks of whitish scarf-skin 

 to give a somewhat striped effect. In general appearance it is decidedly more 

 attractive than the Green Newtown, and its flesh is apt to be more distinctly 

 tinged with yellow, milder, less sprightly and more highly aromatic. 



GREEN SWEET. 



REFERENCES, i. Manning, 1838:63. 2. Manning, Mag. Hort., 7:45- 1841. 

 3. Thomas, 1849:162. 4. Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 3:90. 1851. 5. Horti- 

 culturist, 9:192. 1854. 6. Hooper, 1857:45. 7. Downing, 1857:81. 8. Elliott, 

 1858:83. fig. 9. Mag. Hort., 27:152. 1861. 10. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1862. 

 ii. Warder, 1867:385. 12. Barry, 1883:347. 13. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:240. 

 14. Budd-Hansen, 1903:95. 15. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui., 48: 

 42. 1903- 



