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to March first. As grown at this Station the tree is healthy, strong 

 and a reliable cropper, yielding moderate to heavy crops annually. 

 In fact it is one of the most productive of the varieties thus far tested 

 here, often bearing so heavily that a considerable portion of the 

 fruit is below medium size. Although Reinette Pippin is excellent 

 in quality, Rhode Island Greening surpasses it for culinary use as it 

 also does in size and symmetry. 



Historical. This variety originated in France where it has been known in 

 cultivation for more than one hundred years (2). It appears to be but little 

 known in this country. 



TREE. 



Tree medium to rather large, vigorous; branches short, curved; laterals 

 willowy, slender and somewhat drooping. Form roundish to upright and 

 rather spreading, open. Tzvigs medium to short, straight or somewhat curved, 

 stout to moderately slender ; internodes medium to short. Bark reddish-brown 

 mingled with olive-green, partly streaked with thin scarf-skin, heavily pubes- 

 cent. Lenticels scattering, medium, roundish or oblong, slightly raised. Buds 

 very deeply set in bark, below medium to small, broad, flat, very obtuse, ap- 

 pressed, quite pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit above medium, sometimes large or very large, pretty uniform in size 

 but variable in shape. Form oblate, occasionally roundish, rarely slightly in- 

 clined to conic, often irregularly elliptical or obscurely angular; sides char- 

 acteristically unequal as shown in the accompanying colored plate. Stem short 

 to very short. Cavity medium or below, acute or acuminate, deep, moderately 

 wide or rather narrow, often slightly furrowed, sometimes compressed, some- 

 times with outspreading rays of thin greenish-russet. Calyx small to above 

 medium, open to nearly or quite closed; lobes long, acute to acuminate, re- 

 flexed. Basin variable, small to rather large, moderately shallow to rather 

 deep, narrow to rather wide, rather abrupt, slightly furrowed and wrinkled. 



Skin moderately thick, tough, smooth, green or pale yellow or often whitish 

 especially toward the cavity, occasionally very slightly blushed. Dots numer- 

 ous, whitish or russet, areolar. 



Calyx tube large, deep, flaring, cone-shape to almost funnel-form. Stamens 

 median to basal. 



Core small to nearly medium, usually more or less abaxile ; cells irregular 

 in size, sometimes unsymmetrical, partly open or closed ; core lines clasping. 

 Carpels roundish to elliptical, obtusely emarginate, smooth. Seeds variable, 

 irregular, often large, wide, obtuse. 



Flesh whitish slightly tinged with yellow, firrn, tender, rather crisp, moder- 

 ately coarse-grained, subacid, rich, juicy, good for either dessert or culinary 

 uses. 



REPKA MALENKA. 



REFERENCES, i. Budd, la. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1880:525. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. 

 Rpt., 1881:118. 3. Webster, Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1883:113. 4. Budd, la. Agr. 

 Coll. Bui., 1885:16. 5. Ib., 1890:24. 6. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:248. 7. 



