358 THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit sometimes nearly large but usually medium or below. Form roundish 

 conic, flattened at the base, varying to roundish or to oblate conic, often one- 

 sided. Stem short to medium. Cavity medium, acute to acuminate, deep to 

 moderately deep, rather narrow to broad, symmetrical, furrowed gently if at 

 all, sometimes partly covered with fine russet. Calyx small, usually closed, 

 pubescent. Basin small, characteristically shallow or scarcely at all depressed, 

 often oblique, somewhat furrowed and wrinkled. 



Skin moderately thin, tough, smooth, green becoming clear pale yellow or 

 whitish, washed with red, conspicuously mottled and striped with bright car- 

 mine and overspread with thin bloom. Dots numerous, often submerged, 

 sometimes whitish and rather conspicuous ; a few are russet. Prevailing effect 

 in well-colored specimens, striped red. 



Calyx tube long, narrow, cone-shape to truncate funnel-form j&ith fleshy 

 pistil point projecting into base. Stamens median to marginal. 



Core small to medium, abaxile with a wide, hollow cylinder in the axis, or 

 sometimes axile; cells symmetrical, closed or sometimes partly open; core 

 lines clasping the funnel cylinder. Carpels broadly roundish, emarginate, 

 mucronate. Seeds few, dark, below medium to rather large, moderately wide, 

 obtuse to somewhat acute. 



Flesh whitish a little tinged with yellow, firm, moderately fine to a little 

 coarse, crisp, moderately tender, juicy, sprightly, rather mild subacid, slightly 

 aromatic, fair to good in flavor and quality. 



WALKER BEAUTY. 



REFERENCES, i. N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 11:223. 1892. 2. Bailey, An. Hort., 

 1892:252. 3. Smith Co., W. and T., Cat., 1897:14. 4. Farrand, Mich. Sta. 

 Bui., 205:47. 1903. 5. Ragan, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 56:223. 1905. 



DOUBTFUL REFERENCES. 6. ? Warder, 1867:735. 7. ? White, Card, for the 

 South, 1868:349. 8. ? Downing, 1869:395. 9. ? Thomas, 1875:515. 



SYNONYMS. WALKER (4, 5). Walker's Beauty (5). WALKER YELLOW (7, 

 8, 9) ? Walker's Winter (6) ? 



Fruit predominantly yellow, rather attractive in color but not very uniform 

 in size or shape and rather too acid in flavor to be acceptable for dessert. 

 As tested at this Station the tree is a good grower, comes into bearing rather 

 young and is an annual cropper but not very productive. In the nursery the 

 tree makes a fine upright growth but it is somewhat subject to bark-splitting 

 in the spring. 



Historical. Received in 1892 from W. and T. Smith, Geneva, N. Y., for 

 testing at this Station (i). Walker Beauty is reported to have originated in 

 Allegheny county, Pa. (3), but we have been unable to verify this statement. 

 The fruit corresponds closely with Downing's brief description of Walker 

 Yellow, a native of Pulaski county, Ga. (8). Thus far it has been dissemi- 

 nated but little in New York. 



TREE. 



Tree vigorous; branches long, slender, curved. Form upright or roundish, 

 dense. Tivigs moderately long, curved, slender; internodes medium. Bark 



