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fruit tends to be more oblong', smaller and of a paler yellowish- 

 white color, coarser texture and sprightlier flavor than when grown 

 farther south (17). The fruit has less acidity than Yellow Bell- 

 flower and is more pleasant in flavor for dessert use. The skin 

 being whitish and tender, is easily bruised or discolored in handling. 

 It is also apt to be marred on the tree by the chafing of the limbs. 

 The wood is brittle and the bearing limbs are often broken by the 

 weight of the fruit (22). Ortley is quite subject to attacks of 

 various insects and of the scab fungus, and requires thorough treat- 

 ment to protect it from these troubles. 



Historical. This is an old New Jersey variety which Coxe described under 

 the name Woolman's Long Pippin (i). In 1825 Floy sent fruit of it to the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, London, under the name of Ortley and in the 

 Transactions of the Society for that year Lindley described it under this name 

 giving Woolman's Long as a synonym. Kenrick (4), Manning (7), Thomas 

 (13), Elliott (17), Charles Downing (18), and other American pomologists 

 have followed Floy instead of Coxe and describe the variety under the name 

 Ortley. Emmons (16) gives Ortley as identical w r ith Warren Pippin of Coxe 

 but it is quite doubtful whether he was correct in this case. In portions of 

 the South and West Ortley is an old favorite for planting in home orchards 

 and has there been known under many different names prominent among 

 which are White Bellflower and White Detroit. 



TREE. 



Tree moderately vigorous and medium in size or under favorable conditions 

 large. Form at first upright with long slender shoots but when mature the 

 tree becomes roundish or spreading. Twigs below medium to above, rather 

 slender, straight, quite pubescent; internodes short. Bark dull reddish-brown 

 often overlaid with thick scarf-skin. Lenticels small and scattering but rather 

 conspicuous, mostly roundish, raised. Buds below medium, moderately pro- 

 jecting, roundish, slightly pubescent, free. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit large or medium, not very uniform in size or shape. Form oblong 

 conic and flattened at the base, varying to somewhat roundish conic, regular 

 or obscurely ribbed. Stem long, often slender. Cavity often large, acute or 

 approaching acuminate, deep, varying from moderately narrow to wide, usually 

 partly russeted, somewhat furrowed. Calyx rather small to medium, closed 

 or somewhat open ; lobes long, acute, usually converging and reflexed. Basin 

 small to medium, shallow to moderately deep, narrow to moderately wide, 

 usually abrupt and wrinkled or slightly furrowed. 



Skin moderately thin, tough, smooth, waxy, pale whitish-yellow varying to 

 rich yellow in well developed fruit, rarely with a faint pinkish-red blush, 

 Dots inconspicuous, usually whitish and submerged. 



