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slender to stout with large terminal buds, straight or nearly so; internodes 

 short to rather long. Bark clear reddish-brown tinged with olive-green, 

 lightly mottled with scarf-skin, slightly pubescent. Lenticels clear in color, 

 conspicuous, rather scattering, narrow, elongated, pointed, slightly raised. 

 Buds medium to rather small, plump, obtuse to acute, free or partly adhering, 

 slightly pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit below medium to above, uniform in size and shape. Form roundish 

 oblate to roundish ovate inclined to conic, often somewhat elliptical or ob- 

 scurely ribbed, usually symmetrical. Stem long, usually slender. Cavity 

 above medium, acute to acuminate deep, broad, often compressed or obscurely 

 furrowed, thinly russeted. Calyx small, usually closed. Basin often but 

 slightly depressed, but sometimes moderately deep and inclined to abrupt, 

 usually rather narrow, furrowed and wrinkled. 



Skin thin, tough, smooth, rather pale yellow or greenish, more or less 

 mottled and blushed with pinkish-red rather obscurely striped with carmine, 

 marked toward the cavity with grayish scarf-skin and covered with whitish 

 bloom. Sometimes a considerable portion of the fruit is overspread with a 

 good red color. Dots conspicuous, whitish or pale gray, often areolar with 

 russet point. 



Calyx tube small to medium, cone-shape. Stamens basal to nearly median. 



Core rather large, abaxile ; cells often unsymmetrical, usually wide open, 

 sometimes closed ; core lines' meeting or slightly clasping. Carpels thin, 

 smooth, often decidedly concave, broadly roundish, sometimes slightly emargi- 

 nate. Seeds rather numerous, medium or above, wide, obtuse, light and dark 

 brown. 



Flesh tinged with yellow, firm, moderately fine-grained, crisp, rather tender, 

 juicy, sprightly, subacid, good to very good. 



Season November to March but sometimes it does not extend through 

 January. 



SAVEWELL, 



REFERENCE, i. Downing, 1869:346. 



SYNONYMS. Cornell's Savewell (i). Putnam's Save-well (i). 



A Westchester county apple described by Downing as a valuable keeper. 

 Fruit yellow with shade of dull red, medium in size, roundish oblate inclining 

 to conic. Flesh pleasantly subacid, juicy, tender, good. Season February and 

 March (i). So far as we have been able to learn this variety has not been 

 cultivated outside the vicinity of its origin. 



SCARLET CRANBERRY. 



REFERENCES, i. Rural N. Y., 45:593- 1886. figs. 2. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892: 

 249. 3. Dickens and Greene, Kan. Sta. Bui., 106:55. 1902. 4. Powell and 

 Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui., 48:55. 1903. 



This is a southern variety and when grown as far north as New York it 

 does not develop properly either in quality or in size although it often colors 

 pretty well. It keeps in ordinary storage till late spring and has been held 



