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WINTER BANANA. 



REFERENCES, i. N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 11:224. 1892. 2. Heiges, U. S. Pom. 

 Rpt., 1895 :20. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1897 136. 4. Beach, Eastern N. Y. Hort. 

 Soc. Rpt., 1900 144. 5. Ib., Western N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1900 137. 6. Macoun, 

 Can. Dept. Agr. Rpt., 1901:98. 7. Beach and Clark, N. Y. Sta. Bui., 248:151. 

 1904. 



SYNONYMS. BANANA (2, 3). Winter Banana (2, 3). 



Fruit large, clear pale yellow with beautiful contrasting pinkish-red 

 blush, attractive in appearance, characteristically aromatic, of good 

 dessert quality, but too mild in flavor to excel for culinary uses. The 

 tree is a pretty good grower, comes into bearing young, is almost an 

 annual bearer and yields moderate to rather heavy crops. In 

 ordinary storage the fruit is in season from mid-November to the 

 first of April, but its safe commercial limit in this climate probably 

 would not extend much beyond December. In cold storage it ranks 

 as a keeper about with Rhode Island Greening, but is not equal to 

 Baldwin. It could perhaps be used to advantage commercially to 

 follow the Maiden Blush and extend the season for fruit having the 

 general appearance of that variety. As compared with Maiden 

 Blush this is larger, neither as uniform nor as symmetrical, better 

 for dessert use but less desirable for culinary purposes. Its color 

 is such that it shows bruises more readily than do red apples like 

 Baldwin or Tompkins King. It is sufficiently promising to be 

 worthy of further testing where an apple of this color is desired. 



Another variety which has been disseminated under the name 

 Banana is a sweet apple. It is described on page 60 under the name 

 Banana Sweet. 



Historical. Winter Banana originated on the farm of David Flory near 

 Adamsboro, Cass county, Ind., about 1876. It was introduced by Greening 

 Brothers, Monroe, Michigan, in 1890 (4, 5). It has as yet been but little 

 planted in this state. 



TREE. 



Tree medium in size, vigorous. Form rather flat, spreading and somewhat 

 inclined to droop, open. Twigs long, curved or nearly straight, moderately 

 stout ; internodes long. Bark reddish-brown mingled with olive-green, lightly 

 and irregularly coated with scarf-skin, pubescent. Lenticels conspicuous, 

 numerous, medium to large, round or slightly elongated, raised. Buds sunk 

 in the bark, medium or above, plump, acute to obtuse, free, slightly pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit nearly large to very large, not very uniform in size or shape. Form 

 roundish conic to oblong conic, or sometimes oblate ancj noticeably flat at the 



