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yellowish or russet, often submerged, frequently mingled with irregular lines 

 and flecks of russet. Prevailing effect brilliant deep red. 



Calyx tube medium to rather small, cone-shape or short funnel-form. 

 Stamens median to basal. 



Core small to medium, abaxile ; cells sometimes unsymmetrical, closed or 

 open; core lines meeting or nearly meeting. Carpels smooth, roundish or 

 broadly obcordate. Seeds acute, medium in size, form and color. 



Flesh distinctly tinged with yellow, rather firm, moderately tender, a little 

 coarse, juicy or moderately juicy, agreeable mild subacid, aromatic, good to 

 very good. 



Season November to February or March. 



ORNAMENT. 



REFERENCES, i. Thompson, Cat. Hort. Sac. London, 1842:29. (cited by 2). 

 2. Leroy, 1873:520. fig. 3. Churchill, N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 8:355. 1889. 4. 

 Beach, .V. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 13:590. 1894. 5. Ib., 14:254. 1895. 6. Burrill and 

 McCluer, ///. Sta. Bui, 45:334. 1896. 7. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. 

 Bui., 48:52. 1903. 



SYNONYMS. ORNAMENT DE TABLE (4, 5, 6). Ornament de Table (7). 

 ORNEMENT DE TABLE (2). 



A rather attractive dessert apple of good form and fairly good color but 

 hardly attractive enough for a good commercial variety. The flesh is tender, 

 juicy and mildly subacid or nearly sweet; good in quality but surpassed by 

 other dessert apples of its season. The tree comes into bearing rather young, 

 is a reliable annual cropper and productive or moderately productive. It does 

 not appear to be worthy of the attention of the fruit growers of New York. 



Historical. This is a European variety of uncertain origin (i, 2). It has 

 been disseminated but sparingly in America. 



TREE. 



Tree vigorous. Form roundish or spreading, rather dense. Twigs below 

 medium to short, straight, slender ; internodes medium or below. Bark dark 

 brownish-red partly streaked with scarf-skin, slightly pubescent. Lenticels 

 scattering, small, oblong or roundish, sometimes raised. Buds rather promin- 

 ent, medium or below, broad, plump, obtuse, free or nearly so, quite pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



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

 inclined to conic or somewhat oblate, pretty regular and symmetrical. Stem 

 short, rather slender. Cavity medium to rather small, acuminate or nearly so, 

 rather deep, moderately narrow to rather wide, often partly russeted. Calyx 

 medium in size, usually open, pubescent ; lobes long, acute, separated at the 

 base, reflexed. Basin often somewhat oblique, shallow and obtuse to moder- 

 ately deep and somewhat abrupt, slightly furrowed and wrinkled. 



Skin rather thin, tough, smooth, clear yellow or greenish washed and mottled 

 with dull red or orange-red and sparingly marked with narrow stripes of 

 carmine. Dots numerous, small, gray or russet, not very conspicuous. Pre- 

 vailing effect red and yellow, the red usually predominating. 



