THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 239 



FRUIT. 



Fruit large or above medium, pretty uniform in size and shape. Form 

 roundish or somewhat oblate, pretty symmetrical, regular or somewhat ellip- 

 tical or obscurely angular; sides sometimes unequal. Stem short to moder- 

 ately long, medium in thickness. Cavity medium to rather large, acute to 

 decidedly acuminate, deep, moderately broad to rather narrow, regular, smooth 

 and green or partly covered with greenish-russet, sometimes with outspreading 

 russet rays. Caly.r medium to rather large, usually somewhat open; lobes 

 often separated at the base, short, broad, obtuse, erect or somewhat reflexed. 

 Basin large, usually saucer-shape, wide and abrupt, sometimes moderately 

 shallow and rather obtuse, somewhat wrinkled. 



Skin moderately thin, tough, somewhat waxy, smooth or slightly roughened 

 with large russet dots, green or bright yellow, mottled and striped with red 

 or nearly covered with bright deep red and splashed with purplish-carmine. 

 Dots conspicuous, numerous, gray or russet, rather large, often somewhat 

 elongated or irregular about the cavity. 



Calyx tube obtusely cone-shaped, rarely somewhat funnel-form. Stamens 

 below median to basal. 



Core distant, rather small, axile or nearly so ; cells closed or slit ; core lines 

 meeting or when the calyx tube is funnel-form clasping the funnel cylinder. 

 Carpels roundish or somewhat elongated, narrowing toward the base and apex, 

 emarginate, mucronate, smooth or nearly so. Seeds irregular, large, numer- 

 ous, completely filling the cells, moderately long, wide, obtuse, or sometimes 

 acute, dark brown. 



Flesh whitish with tinge of yellow or green, moderately fine and crisp, rather 

 tender, breaking, juicy, somewhat sprightly subacid eventually approaching 

 sweet, good or possibly very good. 



Season December to March or April. 



OLYMPIA. 



This strain of the Baldwin was discovered growing among some 

 Baldwin trees in a small orchard of Mr. William Shincke, Olympia, 

 Washington. The trees grow like the Baldwin and appear to have 

 the general characteristics of the Baldwin, except that the twigs of 

 one season's growth as compared with Baldwin twigs have darker 

 bark with less red and more brown or olive-brown color. Other 

 minor differences have been observed, such as shorter internodes, 

 heavier scarf-skin, less conspicuous lenticels and more abundant 

 pubescence on bark and buds. We have not had opportunity to 

 determine whether these minor differences are constant. 



The fruit, so far as we are able to judge from the rather limited 

 quantities which we have had the privilege of examining, averages 

 distinctly larger than Baldwin fruit grown in the same locality, and 

 is clearly superior in color, both the red and the yellow tones being 



