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metrical. Stem medium in length, rather slender. Cavity below medium to 

 rather large, usually round, acute to somewhat acuminate, rather deep, mod- 

 erately wide, often somewhat furrowed, usually russeted and with broken 

 outspreading russet. Calyx small to medium, closed or somewhat open ; lobes 

 broad, obtuse, usually connivent. Basin small to medium, usually shallow and 

 obtuse, sometimes moderately deep and abrupt, moderately wide, a little fur- 

 rowed and wrinkled. 



Skin medium in thickness, tough, somewhat roughened with dots and flecks 

 of russet, green or eventually deep yellow, often shaded with a bronze blush. 

 Dots numerous, greenish or russet. Prevailing effect green or yellow. 



Calyx tube cone-shape or elongated funnel-form. Stamens median or ap- 

 proaching marginal. 



Core small to medium, axile to* slightly abaxile with hollow cylinder in the 

 axis ; cells symmetrical, closed or sometimes partly open ; core lines clasping. 

 Carpels thin, tender, broadly roundish, emarginate, mucronate, sometimes 

 tufted. Seeds numerous, below medium to above medium, broad, plump, 

 obtuse, rather light brown. 



Flesh yellowish, firm, moderately tender, rather fine-grained, juicy, mild or 

 very mild subacid, aromatic, rich, very good to best. 



SWAZIE. 



REFERENCES, i. Downing, 1872:27 app. fig. 2. Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt., 

 1883. 3. Ib., 1886-87:96. 4. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:250. 5. Woolverton, 

 Ont. Fr. Stas. An. Rpt., 3:16. 1896. figs. 6. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1899:20. 7. 

 Macoun, Can. Dept. Agr. Bui., 37:46. 1901. 8. Waugh, Rural N. Y., 62:185, 

 186. 1903. figs. 9. Budd-Hansen, 1903:185. fig. 10. Ragan, U. S. B. P. I. 

 Bui., 56:123. 1905. ii. Ib., 56:303. 1905. 



SYNONYMS. GOLDEN GRAY? (10). POMME GRISE D'OR (i). Pomme 

 Grise d'Or(s,g, 10). SWAYSIE POMME GRISE (3). SWAYZIE (n). SWAYZIE 

 POMME GRISE (4, 7). Sivayzie Pomme Grise (n). SWAZIE POMME GRISE 

 (5, 8). Swazie Pomme Grise (i). Swazie's Pomme Gris (10). Swazy (11). 

 SWAZY Pomme Gris (6, 9). 



This is a variety of the Pomme Grise group. As compared with 

 Pomme Grise it is more oblong, has more of a golden color, is more 

 highly aromatic and superior in quality (i, 6). The fruit is small 

 to nearly medium, of a golden russet color and excellent dessert 

 quality. Woolverton ranks it best in quality for dessert but poor 

 for cooking or for either home or foreign market. He remarks that 

 it succeeds well in Southern Ontario especially in the Niagara dis- 

 trict; but, unfortunately, it is not very productive and consequently 

 not profitable, one large tree at Maplehurst, 75 years planted, having 

 yielded only an average of four barrels of fruit each alternate 

 year (5). 



The first published description of this variety which we find is 

 that given by Downing- ( i ) under the name Pomme Grise d'Or with 



