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Skin smooth, glossy, light greenish-yellow or yellow, thinly mottled and 

 striped with red on the exposed cheek. Dots small, fine, mingled with others 

 that are large, conspicuous, irregular and brownish-russet. Prevailing effect 

 green or yellowish. 



Core below medium or even small ; cells closed ; core lines nearly meeting. 

 Carpels obcordate, tufted. Seeds few, large, dark, flat, tufted. 



Flesh yellowish, firm, coarse, tough yet somewhat crisp, moderately juicy, 

 mildly subacid but eventually becoming sweet, fair in quality. 



MISSOURI PIPPIN. 



REFERENCES, i. Warder, 1867:656. 2. Downing, 1872:23 app. 3. Am. Pom. 

 Soc. Cat., 1881:12. 4. Brackett, Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1881:145. 5. Barry, 

 1883:349. 6. Thomas, 1885:518. 7. Coleman, Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1885:28. 

 8. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:244. 9. Wright, Am. Card., 17:33. 1896. 10. 

 Powell, Del. Sta. Bui., 38:19. 1898. n. Macoun, Can. Dept. Agr. Rpt., 1901: 

 97. 12. Dickens and Greene, Kan. Sta. Bui, 106:54. 1902. 13. Budd-Hansen, 

 1903:130- fig- *4' Bruner, N. C. Sta. Bui, 182:27. 1903. 15. Powell and Ful- 

 ton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 48:49. 1903. 16. Beach and Clark, N. Y. Sta. Bui, 

 248:132. 1904. 



SYNONYMS. MISSOURI (15). MISSOURI KEEPER (i). Missouri Keeper 

 (2, 3, 4, 5). Missouri Orange (4). MISSOURI PIPPIN (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 

 10, n, 12, 14). Missouri Pippin (15). 



This is one of the well-known market apples of the Middle 

 West. As grown in that region the tree is short-lived, and in 

 the Mississippi valley in orchards more than twenty years old 

 it is seldom profitable, but it comes into bearing at an early age 

 and is a reliable and heavy cropper. The fruit is of good color 

 but only second rate in quality, and on old trees is inclined to 

 be rather too small for market. It is regarded with favor by fruit 

 dealers because of its attractive appearance and good keeping 

 quality. There has been some complaint of its scalding in 

 storage (16), but this fault does not appear to be serious enough 

 to affect materially its popularity. So far as we have been able 

 to discover it is not grown in New York. It is quite doubtful 

 whether its fruit would commonly develop here to good market- 

 able size even if grown in the southeastern part of New York, 

 where the climatic and soil conditions are more favorable to 

 varieties of this class than they are in the more northern and 

 western portions of the state. 



Historical The Missouri Pippin is supposed to have originated on the 

 farm of Brinkley Hornsby, Kingsville, Johnson county, Missouri, from seed 

 planted about 1840 (2, 4, 7). Shortly after the Civil War it began to be 



