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two strains of this variety a red Seek-No-Further and a gray Seek- 

 No-Further. D. D. Stone of Lansing, Oswego county, N. Y., grows 

 Westfield Seek-No-Further which, as compared with the common 

 type, is considerably more highly colored, having more of a solid 

 red color and being less noticeably striped. The dots are decidedly 

 more conspicuous; the flesh is perhaps more highly flavored but 

 otherwise identical with the common type as also are the core 

 characters. Mr. Stone reports that the tree of the red type is of a 

 more roundish form, that of the common type more spreading. We 

 have not had the opportunity of determining whether there is in fact 

 a distinct type characterized by more highly colored fruit or whether 

 such differences as are above mentioned are brought about altogether 

 by differences in the conditions under which the fruit is grown. 



WHITE PEARMAIN. 



REFERENCES, i. N. Y. Agr. Soc. Trans., 1849:124. 2. Phoenix, Horticul- 

 turist, 4:471. 1850. 3. Downing, 1857:110. fig. 4. Hooper, 1857:59, 60, 99, 

 100. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1858. 6. Mag. Hort., 27:60, 62. 1861. 7. Warder, 

 1867:508. 8. Thomas, 1875:232. 9. Barry, 1883:357. 10. Wickson, 1889:248. 

 ii. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:252. 12. Stinson, Ark. Sta. An. Rpt., 7:47. 1894. 

 13. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1897:15. 14. Dickens and Greene, Kan. Sta. Bui, 

 106:56. 1902. 15. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 48:60. 1903. 16. 

 Budd-Hansen, 1903:201. fig. 



SYNONYM. WHITE WINTER PEARMAIN (i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, n, 12, 

 14). White Winter Pearmain (15, 16). 



This is an old favorite dessert apple in portions of the Middle 

 West from Ohio to Kansas. It appears to succeed better in those 

 regions than it does in New York. It is not recommended for 

 planting in this state. 



Historical. Warder says " This favorite fruit was brought to Indiana by 

 some of the early pomologists, in the days of saddle-bag transportation. In 

 a lot of grafts, two varieties, having lost their labels, were propagated and 

 fruited without name. Being considered Pearmain-shaped, they were called 

 respectively Red and White Winter Pearmains. The former proved to be the 

 Esopus Spitzenberg; the latter has never yet been identified, though believed 

 to be an old eastern variety." For a time it was confused with an old New 

 Jersey apple by the name of Michael Henry Pippin, and Elliott fell into the 

 error of publishing White Pearmain and White Winter Pearmain as synonyms 

 of Michael Henry Pippin* but it was finally conceded that White Pearmain 

 and Michael Henry Pippin are distinct varieties (4, 7). In 1858 it was cata- 



1 Elliott, 1854 : 9 i. 



