332 THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 



As grown in this state it is usually not as large as Rhode Island Greening 

 particularly when it is borne on overloaded trees, but under favorable condi- 

 tions the fruit becomes large as Thacher describes it. The tree is medium 

 in size, upright, hardy, long-lived, comes into bearing moderately young, is 

 a reliable biennial or sometimes almost annual bearer and often yields heavy 

 crops. The twigs are medium to long, erect or spreading and stout. The 

 fruit hangs well to the tree. Where this variety is known it is quite highly 

 esteemed for home use because it is a good keeper and very good in quality 

 for dessert and for baking or other culinary uses. Generally it is not con- 

 sidered a good variety for the commercial orchard because sweet fruit of 

 this color meets with little demand in the general market. It may be disposed 

 of in limited quantities in some local markets. Some growers find that it 

 takes better in southern than in northern markets. It is in season from 

 December to April or May. 



Sweet Greening is quite distinct from Green Sweet, page 150. From the 

 accounts of Sweet Greening and Sweet Rhode Island Greening given by Down- 

 ing (2, 7) and some other pomologists, there seems to be some reason for 

 questioning whether or not these are distinct. We have not seen the fruit 

 of Sweet Rhode Island Greening but the fruit of Sweet Greening which we 

 have obtained from various sources corresponds fairly well with Downing's 

 description of Sweet Rhode Island Greening. Ragan makes Sweet Rhode 

 Island Greening synonymous with New Greening and probably identical with 

 Curtis Greening and Illinois Greening (8). 



Historical. Origin unknown but from the statement of Thacher (i) it is 

 probable that it originated in the old Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts. It 

 is grown in some localities in Central and Western New York but has not 

 been reported to us from any other portion of this state. It is now seldom 

 or never planted. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit medium to large, uniform in shape and size. Form roundish oblate 

 or sometimes approaching roundish conic, regular or somewhat elliptical ; sides 

 sometimes unequal. Stem medium to short, moderately thick. Cavity medium 

 in size, acuminate or approaching acute, deep or moderately deep, rather broad, 

 sometimes gently furrowed, russeted and with some outspreading or broken 

 rays of russet. Calyx partly open or closed; lobes convergent or connivent, 

 broad, acute. Basin moderately shallow and somewhat obtuse to moderately 

 deep and rather abrupt, medium in width, slightly furrowed and wrinkled. 



Skin thick, tough, smooth, bright, grass-green becoming yellowish or yellow, 

 usually with no red but sometimes slightly bronze with reddish spots or dots 

 or even with a well-developed brownish-red blush. Irregular, large, whitish 

 dots and streaks of whitish scarf-skin appear about the cavity, sometimes 

 mingled with a little russet. The whitish dots are rather conspicuous, numer- 

 ous and broad toward the basin ; the rough or russet dots are more scattering. 



Calyx tube truncate funnel-form. Stamens median or below. 



Core small to medium, nearly axile with a hollow cylinder in the axis ; cells 

 symmetrical, closed or slit ; core lines clasping. Carpels broadly roundish, 

 emarginate, mucronate, somewhat tufted. Seeds very numerous, below 

 medium to rather small, moderately narrow to rather wide, obtuse to some- 

 what acute, plump, sometimes tufted. 



