THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 191 



LEE SWEET. 



Lee Sweet is a handsome deep red apple of good size, acceptable 

 for dessert but especially valuable for market and culinary uses. It 

 is desirable for the home orchard and appears to be worthy of con- 

 sideration for commercial planting where a sweet apple is desired. 

 The fruit is illustrated on the color plate wLh Northern Spy, and a 

 section of it is shown on the color plate with McLellan. 



The tree does not come into bearing very young, but when mature 

 is a reliable cropper, yielding moderately heavy crops biennially. 

 The fruit hangs fairly well to the tree and is pretty uniform in size 

 and quality, having about as high a percentage of marketable fruit 

 as the Baldwin. It is somewhat subject to scab, but this may be 

 readily controlled by proper treatment. It stores well and, if perfect, 

 keeps well. In ordinary storage it is in season from January to 

 April. 



Historical. An old variety of uncertain origin known to some in the vicinity 

 of Geneva under the name of Lee Sweet because it was formerly grown on 

 the White Springs farm then known as the Lee farm. It is here described 

 under its local name because we have been unable to identify it with any other 

 variety. 



TREE. 



Tree medium in size, moderately vigorous. Form erect. Twigs medium 

 in length to rather short, pretty straight, rather slender; internodes short to 

 medium. Bark olive-green overcast with brownish-red, overlaid with thin 

 scarf-skin, slightly pubescent. Lenticels moderately numerous, raised, gen- 

 erally elongated, small. Buds small, roundish, pubescent, nearly free from 

 bark. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit medium to nearly large, fairly uniform in shape and size. Form 

 roundish conic to oblong conic, often somewhat angular or elliptical ; sides 

 sometimes unequal. Stem medium to short. Cavity acuminate, deep, moder- 

 ately wide, sometimes lipped or furrowed, russeted, often with outspreading 

 russet rays. Calyx rather large, open ; lobes long, acuminate, reflexed, often 

 separated at the base. Basin medium to rather small, usually abrupt, usually 

 medium in depth and width, sometimes a little furrowed. 



Skin tough, glossy bright red striped with purplish-carmine over a yellow 

 background and sometimes marked with grayish scarf-skin about the base. 

 Highly colored specimens are nearly or quite covered with red but where the 

 color is less strongly developed it has a striped appearance. Dots usually 

 whitish, rather numerous, small, occasionally rather large and dark russet. 



Calyx tube conical or funnel-form. Stamens median or below. 



