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TREE. 



Tree vigorous; branches moderately long, stout, crooked. Form roundish 

 or spreading, rather dense. Twigs long, curved, stout ; internodes medium. 

 Bark dark brown lightly streaked with scarf-skin, pubescent near the tips. 

 Lenticels numerous, small, round, not raised. Buds deeply set in bark, of 

 medium size, broad, obtuse, appressed, slightly pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit medium, uniform in size and shape. Form roundish to roundish 

 oblate, symmetrical. Stem medium to rather long, slender. Cavity usually 

 acuminate, deep, narrow to rather broad, often heavily russeted and with out- 

 spreading irregular rays. Calyx medium in size, closed or sometimes open ; 

 lobes long, rather narrow, acute. Basin abrupt, medium in depth to deep, 

 moderately wide, slightly furrowed and wrinkled. 



Skin moderately thick, tender, greenish-yellow with many dark green 

 blotches and gray dots, a very few faint red stripes scarcely perceptible, and 

 on the exposed side a warm mottled brown blush, containing numerous white 

 dots with a central gray speck in each (2). 



Calyx tube large, long, conical to funnel-form, extending nearly to core. 

 Stamens marginal to median. 



Core medium in size, abaxile ; cells unsymmetrical, wide open ; core lines 

 clasping. Carpels smooth, nearly cordate to broadly ovate. Seeds numerous, 

 dark brown, medium in size, plump, obtuse. 



Flesh slightly tinged with yellow, fine, crisp, very tender, juicy, very mild 

 subacid mingled with sweet, good. 



JACOBS SWEET. 



REFERENCES, i. Manning, Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1880:235. 2. Ib., Am. 

 Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1885:28. 3. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:242. 4. Beach, N. Y. 

 Sta. An. Rpt., 14:253. 1895. 5. Ib., West. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1896:52. 6. 

 Manning, Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1899:185. 7. Budd-Hansen, 1903:105. 8. 

 Rural N. Y., 62:771. 1903. fig. 9. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 

 48:45. 1903. 10. Beach and Clark, N. Y. Sta. Bui., 248:126. 1904. 



SYNONYMS. JACOBS (4, 5, 9). JACOB'S SWEET (i, 2, 3). Jacobs Sweet 

 (9). JACOB'S WINTER SWEET (3). Jacobs' Winter Sweet (4). 



A large showy apple, green or yellowish often with bright blush. 

 In form, color and texture it somewhat resembles Bough Sweet. It 

 is one of the best sweet apples of its season for baking. The fruit is 

 very tender and liable to crack and spot. It rots on the tree and also 

 in storage. It is an unreliable keeper and rather variable in season 

 but commonly is in season about with Pumpkin Sweet or Tompkins 

 King. Its commercial limit varies from October to December or 

 later in cellar storage and from January to March in cold storage 

 (9, 10). The tree is not a very satisfactory grower in the nursery 



