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disseminated outside of the locality of its origin and its cultivation spread 

 with such rapidity that in a very few years it was being extensively planted 

 in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and adjacent states. The good degree of hardi- 

 ness and vigor which it possesses, the ease with which it is propagated in the 

 nursery, and particularly its habit of bearing early and abundantly were the 

 qualities which recommended it to the fruit growers of that region. During 

 the early years of fruit production in the prairie sections of that country this 

 variety was more often seen than any other. As the trees became older it 

 was found that they were inclined to overbear with a result that frequently a 

 large percentage of the fruit failed to attain good marketable size. Then 

 Missouri Pippin began to wane in popularity and to-day it is used chiefly as 

 a filler for planting between the rows of permanent trees. 



TREE. 



Tree moderately vigorous with long, slender, curved branches, characteristic 

 on account of its numerous, slender twigs and general crab-like appearance. 

 Form upright becoming roundish or spreading. Twigs moderately long, 

 straight, slender; internodes short. Bark dark brown, mottled with heavy 

 scarf-skin, pubescent. Lenticels scattering, medium, oval to oblong, raised. 

 Buds deeply set, small, plump, obtuse, appressed, slightly pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit medium in size. Form roundish, somewhat inclined to conic. Stem 

 medium in length, rather slender. Cavity acute to nearly acuminate, moder- 

 ately wide, rather deep, faintly russeted. Calyx medium in size, closed or 

 nearly so ; lobes moderately long, rather narrow. Basin medium to deep, 

 rather wide, abrupt, usually somewhat wrinkled. 



Skin thick, tough, smooth, rather glossy, thinly coated with grayish bloom; 

 color pale greenish or yellow overspread with bright red striped with purplish 

 red. Highly colored specimens are almost of a solid red color. Dots con- 

 spicuous, russet, or rather large, pale gray. 



Calyx tube funnel-form with wide limb, sometimes broadly conical. Stamens 

 median. 



Core small, axile, or nearly so; cells symmetrical, slightly open; core lines 

 clasping. Carpels smooth, roundish elliptical to slightly obovate, sometimes 

 emarginate. Seeds medium to rather small, moderately long and wide, slightly 

 obtuse, dark brown. 



Flesh tinged -somewhat with yellow, firm, medium to rather fine-grained, not 

 very tender, not very juicy, briskly subacid, fair to good in quality. 



Season in common storage October to January; in cold storage January to 

 April. 



MONMOUTH. 



REFERENCES, i. Mag. Hort., 14:141. 1848. 2. Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 3:74. 1851. col. pi. No. 57. 3. Barry, Horticulturist, 8:341- 1853. 4- Elliott, 

 1854:92. fig. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1854. 6. Downing, 1857:88. 7. Hooper, 

 1857:61. 8. Warder, 1867:577. fig. 9. Barry, 1883:349. 10. Thomas, 1885: 

 245. ii. Wickson, 1889:246. 12. Lyon, Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1890:294. 13. 

 Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:244. 14. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui., 48:49. 



