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pubescent. Cavity medium in size, acute, medium in depth and width, sym- 

 metrical or rarely lipped, usually smooth, sometimes russeted and with narrow, 

 outspreading russet rays. Calyx below medium to rather large, usually closed, 

 sometimes partly open, pubescent; lobes moderately long, acute. Basin small 

 to medium, shallow and obtuse to moderately deep and abrupt, regular or 

 slightly furrowed. 



Skin moderately thick, tough, smooth, waxy, grass-green varying to rather 

 yellow, sometimes with brownish-red blush which rarely deepens to a distinct 

 bright red (37). Dots greenish-white or russet, especially numerous toward 

 the basin and often submerged. Prevailing effect green or yellowish. 



Calyx tube rather wide, usually cone-shape with fleshy pistil point project- 

 ing into the base but occasionally funnel-form. Stamens median to basal. 



Core medium or below, somewhat abaxile to axile or nearly so ; cells pretty 

 uniform, symmetrical, closed or partly open ; core lines meeting if the calyx 

 tube is cone-shape, otherwise clasping. Carpels rather thin, flat, emarginate, 

 roundish to roundish cordate, sometimes tufted. Seeds few; often some are 

 abortive. The plump ones are large, moderately narrow, long, acute to acumi- 

 nate and sometimes tufted. 



Flesh yellowish, firm, moderately fine-grained, crisp, tender, juicy, rich, 

 sprightly subacid, peculiarly flavored, very good in quality. 



RIDGE. 



REFERENCES, i. Genesee Farmer, 1833. (cited by 10). 2. Emmons, Nat. 

 Hist. N. Y., 3:46. 1851. col. pi. No. 55. 3. Downing, 1857:184. 4. Am. Pom. 

 Soc. Cat., 1862. 5. Warder, 1867:536. 6. Thomas, 1875:510. 7. Barry, 1883: 

 354. 8. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:248. 9. Budd-Hansen, 1903:166. 10. Ragan, 

 U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 56:262. 1905. 



SYNONYMS. RIDGE PIPPIN (i, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). RIDGE Pippin (9). Ridge 

 Pippin (10). RIDGED PIPPIN (2). Not the RIDGE of Bui. 248 of this 

 Station. 



Fruit of good yellow color, not particularly attractive in form, a 

 late keeper and good in quality for either dessert or culinary uses. 

 It averages pretty uniform in size with comparatively few culls. 

 The tree is healthy, hardy, long-lived and a reliable cropper yielding 

 good crops biennially. Some growers consider it a fairly profitable 

 variety for local markets. 



Since Bulletin 248 was published it has been discovered that the 

 variety therein mentioned under the name of Ridge or Ridge Pippin 

 is in fact Ribston. It appears that the name Ridge Pippin is used 

 by some dealers as a trade synonym for Ribston, and this use of it 

 led us into the error of publishing a duplicate report on Ribston 

 under the name Ridge. 



Historical. According to Warder (5) this variety originated in the vicinity 

 of Philadelphia but Downing (3) regarded this as uncertain. Although it has 



