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Soc. Rpt., 1885:26. 6. Can. Hort., 11:8. 1888. 7. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:249. 

 8. Brown, Can. Hort., 17:252. 1894. g. Craig, Can. Dept. Agr. Rpt., 1894:125. 

 10. Waugh, Ft. Sta. Bui, 61:32. 1897. n. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1899:20. 12. 

 N. C. Bd. Agr. Bui, 1900:10. 13. Can. Hort., 24:454. 1901. 14. Dickens and 

 Greene, Kan. Sta. Bui, 106:55. 1902. 15. Budd-Hansen, 1903:172. 16. Powell 

 and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 48:55. 1903. 17. Beach and Clark, A'. Y. Sta. 

 Bui, 248:143. 1904. 18. Can. Hort., 27:242, 245, 1904. fig. 19. Nat. Nursery- 

 man, 13:52. 1905. 



This fruit is usually below medium size and but moderately 

 attractive in color but sometimes it develops good size and good 

 color. As grown in New York it does not excel standard sorts of 

 its season in size, color or quality. In some parts of the state it is 

 regarded with considerable favor as a promising commercial variety 

 because the fruit hangs well to the tree in high winds, is firm, stands 

 handling well and usually keeps pretty well, is smooth and usually 

 free from scab ; and because the tree is vigorous, very hardy, healthy, 

 comes into bearing early and is a reliable cropper, yielding mod- 

 erate to good crops biennially or nearly annually. It appears to 

 vary somewhat in keeping qualities in different seasons and in dif- 

 ferent localities. As grown at this Station its usual commercial limit 

 is March but exceptionally it shows a rather rapid rate of loss in 

 early winter. It stands heat well before going into storage and goes 

 down rapidly (17). In Central and Western New York it appears 

 to require a warm soil and warm exposure together with careful 

 attention to training that the top may be kept sufficiently open to 

 admit the sunlight to the foliage in all parts of the tree so as to 

 hasten the ripening of the fruit and improve its color. Because the 

 fruit lacks in size and color probably it will never be planted very 

 extensively in this state. 



Historical. Salome originated about 1853 in a nursery in Ottawa, Illinois. 

 The property afterwards came into the hands of Mr. E. C. Hatheway who 

 discovered the merits of the variety and began its propagation. He exhibited 

 it before the Illinois State Horticultural Society in 1878 under the name of 

 Salome. In 1884 it was introduced to the trade by Arthur Bryant, Princeton, 

 Illinois. It has been disseminated sparingly in various parts of this state. 

 Thus far it has been but little planted in New York orchards but in some 

 localities its cultivation is perhaps increasing slightly. 



TREE. 



Tree a vigorous, upright grower in the nursery ; in the orchard it becomes 

 large. Form upright, becoming roundish, dense. Twigs short to long, rather 



