370 THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 



Skin pale yellow or greenish, sometimes blushed, mottled and striped with 

 thin brownish-red or brownish-pink. Dots small, characteristically whitish 

 and submerged, or green with fine russet point. They are more scattering, 

 larger, irregular and more often russet toward the cavity. Prevailing color 

 yellow or green. 



Calyx lube long, narrow, elongated conical to somewhat funnel-form. 

 Stamens median to nearly basal. 



Core small to medium, somewhat abaxile with hollow cylinder in the axis ; 

 cells not uniformly developed but usually symmetrical, closed or sometimes 

 open; core lines clasping. Carpels roundish to somewhat ovate varying to 

 elongated and narrow, sometimes emarginate, slightly tufted. Seeds small to 

 above medium, plump, rather narrow, elongated, acuminate, medium brown 

 to rather dark brown. 



Flesh slightly tinged with yellow, firm, moderately fine-grained to a little 

 coarse, tender, crisp, juicy, sprightly subacid, good or sometimes very good. 



WILLOW. 



REFERENCES, i. Mag. Hart., 14:113. 1848. 2. Thomas, 1849:175. 3. Em- 

 mons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 3:77. 1851. fig. 4. Elliott, 1854:164. fig. 5. Horticul- 

 turist, 10:87. 1855. 6. Downing, 1857:204. 7. Hooper, 1857:96. 8. Am. Pom. 

 Soc. Cat., 1860. 9. Mag. Hort., 27:99. 1861. 10. Warder, 1867:619. fig. u. 

 Barry, 1883:357. 12. Lyon, Mich. Hort. Soc. Kpt., 1890:300. 13. Taylor, Me. 

 Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1892:57. 14. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:252. 15. Hoskins, Rural 

 -V. Y., 53:310. 1894. 16. Burrill and McCluer, ///. Sta. Bui, 45:346. 1896. 17. 

 Richman, Utah Sta. Bui., 45:17. 1896. 18. Stinson, Mo. Fr. Sta. Bui., 3:27. 

 1902. 19. Budd-Hansen, 1903:205. fig. 20. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. 

 Bui., 48:61. 1903. 



SYNONYMS. James River (9, 10, 12). Willow Leaf (4). WILLOW TWIG 

 (2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, n, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18). WILLOW Twig (19). Willow Ttvig 

 (i, 3, 4, 10, 16, 20). 



Willow is a southern or semi-southern variety. It has been cul- 

 tivated chiefly in the central portion of the Mississippi valley. Like 

 many other southern winter apples its quality is not the best, but 

 it is a good, long keeper. The tree is a strong grower and a rather 

 early and regular bearer. Willow is less attractive than Ben Davis, 

 both in size and in color, but after coming into season it does not 

 become mealy and deteriorate in quality as soon as Ben Davis does 

 in the regions where it is most popular. Willow has proved to be 

 quite hardy in the North, but it requires a rather long and favorable 

 season for the proper development of its fruit. The fruit is not as 

 attractive as that of the Baldwin, neither is it as good in quality, 

 but it is valuable because it keeps late. When well grown it is, on 

 the whole, rather attractive, being quite uniform in size and shape, 



