i8 THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 



the crop is ready to pick. In the nursery it is a rough grower 

 forming many badly shaped trees and for this reason it is best to 

 topwork it on some good straight stock. The tree comes into 

 bearing rather early and under favorable conditions is an annual 

 cropper but only moderately productive. It is a fine fruit for 

 exhibition but is not worthy of cultivation for either home use or 

 market. 



Historical. Origin, Germany. 



TREE. 



Tree large, moderately vigorous to vigorous. Form upright spreading or 

 roundish, dense, with laterals inclined to droop. Twigs short, curved, stout, 

 with large terminal buds ; internodes long. Bark dull brown tinged with 

 green, lightly streaked with scarf-skin; pubescent. Lenticels quite numerous, 

 conspicuous, medium in size, oval, raised. Buds prominent, large, broad, 

 plump, obtuse, free, pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit very large, pretty uniform in size and shape. Form roundish oblate 

 or inclined to conic, with broad, flat base, somewhat irregular. Stem medium 

 to short, thick. Cavity large, acute, or approaching acuminate, wide, mod- 

 erately shallow to rather deep, sometimes furrowed, occasionally lipped, 

 often much russeted and with outspreading russet rays. Calyx medium to 

 small, closed; lobes rather narrow, acute. Basin varies from shallow and 

 obtuse to deep and abrupt, medium in width, somewhat wrinkled, often 

 marked with mammiform protuberances. 



Skin thick, tough, smooth, bright pale yellow to greenish or whitish washed 

 with pinkish-red and sparingly and obscurely splashed with deeper red. Dots 

 numerous, small, inconspicuous, yellowish or russet. 



Calyx tube broadly conical. Stamens usually basal or nearly so. 



Core medium to large, axile to somewhat abaxile; cells partly open; core 

 lines clasping. Carpels cordate or broadly roundish, a little tufted. Seeds 

 numerous, large to medium, rather wide, broadly acute, rather light brown. 



Flesh almost white, firm, very coarse, crisp, somewhat tough, juicy, sub- 

 acid, fair to nearly good. 



Season September and October. 



BIRTH. 



REFERENCES, i. Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt., 8:42,73. 1881-82. 2. Budd, la. 

 Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1882:79. 3. Ib., 1883:444, 685. fa. 4. Montreal Hort. 

 Soc. Rpt., 1883:107. fig. 5. N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 2:35. 1883. 6. la. Agr. 

 Coll. Bui, 1885:18. 7. Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1886-87:80. 8. N. Y. Sta. 

 An. Rpt., ii :s88. 1892. 9. la. Sta. Bui, 41 70. 1899. 



SYNONYMS. BIRTH (8, 9). CHRIST BIRTH (6). CHRIST BIRTH APPLE 

 (2, 3). Christ Birth Apple (4). CHRISTMAS (7). No. 161 (7). No. 477 



