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striped with darker red. Prevailing effect dull green and red, but in highly 

 colored specimens fairly bright red. 



Calyx tube rather wide, truncate cone-shape with fleshy pistil point pro- 

 jecting into the base, or approaching funnel-form. Stamens median or below. 



Core medium to rather small, axile ; cells uniform, symmetrical, closed or 

 partly open ; core lines meeting or slightly clasping Carpels thin, tender, flat, 

 broadly roundish to obcordate, emarginate, mucronate, tufted. Seeds few, 

 long, acute, tufted. 



Flesh yellowish, firm, moderately fine to rather coarse, breaking, rather 

 tender, juicy, sprightly, mild subacid, not high in flavor, fair to good, or nearly 

 good, in quality. 



STAYMAN WINESAP. 



REFERENCES, i. Downing, 1881:106 app. fig. 2. Stayman, Mo. Hort. Soc. 

 Rpt., 1883:77. 3. Bailey, Mich. Sta. Bui, 31:54. 1887. 4. Rural N. Y., 55:1. 

 1896. 5. Amer. Card., 17:33. 1896. 6. Van Deman, Rural N. Y., 57:201. 

 1898. 7. Powell, Del. Sta. Bui, 38:20. 1898. fig. 8. Van Deman, Rural N. Y., 

 58:800. 1899. 9 Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1899:20. 10. Rural N. Y., 59:466, 510. 

 1900. fig. ii. Amer Gard., 22:191. 1901. 12. Van Deman, Rural N. Y., 60: 

 124, 210, 307, 532. 1901. 13. Taylor, U. S. Dept. Agr. Yr. Bk., 1902:470. col. 

 pi. 14. Rural N. Y., 61:688. 1902. 15. Bruner, N. C. Sta. Bui, 182:22. 1903. 

 1 6. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 48:57. 1903. 17. Budd-Hansen, 

 1903:180. fig. 18. Beach and Clark, N. Y. Sta. Bui, 248:145. 1904. 



SYNONYMS. STAYMAN (4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12). Stayman (13, 16). STAYMAN'S 

 WINESAP (i, 2, 3, 7, n). Stayman s Winesap (13). 



Van Deman calls this the best variety of the Winesap class for 

 general cultivation (12). Taylor remarks that the only particular 

 in which it does not equal its parent is in its color which is some- 

 what less brilliant than that of Winesap and adds that it appears to 

 be adapted to a wider range of soil and climate and well worthy of 

 testing throughout the middle latitudes, both for home use and for 

 market (13). As tested at this Station the tree is moderately vig- 

 orous, comes into bearing young and is a reliable annual cropper, 

 alternating heavy with light crops; but the fruit, as shown by the 

 accompanying illustration, does not develop properly here in size 

 and color. It is evidently not well suited for regions as far north 

 as this. 



Historical This variety was originated from seed of Winesap in 1866 at 

 Leavenworth, Kan., by Dr. J. Stayman and bore its first fruit in 1875 (13). 

 The earliest published descriptions of it were given by Downing (i) and 

 Stayman (2). "Further than these descriptions the variety does not appear 

 to have attracted any special attention until after 1890, when its good qualities 

 were discovered almost simultaneously by Mr. R. J. Black, of Bremen, Ohio, 

 and Mr. J. W. Kerr, of Denton, Md., both of whom fruited it on top grafts 



