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Skin moderately thick, tough, smooth, rather bright green becoming yellow, 

 usually partly covered with a thin pinkish-red blush upon which there are 

 often seen red, areolar dots with russet or whitish center ; commonly the 

 dots are whitish and often submerged. Prevailing color green or yellowish. 



Calyx tube long, funnel-form. Stamens median to nearly marginal.. 



Core a little abaxile, medium to small; cells symmetrical, open or nearly 

 so ; core lines clasp the base of the cylinder. Carpels thin, generally smooth, 

 broadly roundish, narrowing toward the base, slightly emarginate. Seeds 

 numerous, medium or above, rather wide, obtuse. 



Flesh yellowish, firm, moderately coarse, tender, rather juicy, pleasant sub- 

 acid, good. 



Season October to January. 



DETROIT RED. 



REFERENCES. i. Mag. Hort., 10:167. 1844. 2. Downing, 1845:106. 

 3. Horticulturist, 1:361. 1846. 4. N. Y. Agr. Soc. Trans., 1846:192. 5. 

 Thomas, 1849:164. 6. Cole, 1849:115. 7. Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 3:65. 

 1851. fig., col. pi. 8. Elliott, 1854:130. 9. Downing, 1857:134. 10. Warder, 

 1867:532. fig. n. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1873. 12. Wickson, 1889:245. 

 13. Lyon, Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1890:290. 14. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:237. 

 15. Waugh, Vt. Sta. An. Rpt., 14:291. 1901. 



SYNONYMS. Black Apple of some (2, 9). BLACK DETROIT (5, 7). Black 

 Detroit (2, 8). Crimson Pippin (6, 8, of some 2). DETROIT (i, 2, 4, 6, 8). 

 Detroit (9). DETROIT BLACK (10). DETROIT RED (3, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15). 

 Detroit Red? (10). 



Fruit growers in Western New York have commonly used the 

 names Detroit Red and Detroit Black interchangeably for the 

 remarkably variable variety w-hich we are here describing as 

 Detroit Red. We have been unable to determine whether there are 

 ir fact two distinct varieties of this type, or whether the differences 

 which have been observed in the habit of growth and productive- 

 ness of the tree and in the form, size, general appearance, season 

 and quality of the fruit, are altogether due to differences in the 

 conditions under which the fruit has been produced. Speaking of 

 these two names, Warder, in 1867, wrote, " I have put these two 

 names together because the fruits presented as Black and as Red 

 Detroit are so very much alike in all respects that it is not worth 

 while to consider them distinct. * * * The Red variety may 

 be distinct, as it keeps later." 



Lyon (13) recognized two or more varieties of this type and 

 distinguished them by the names Detroit Black and Detroit Red. 

 Speaking of Detroit Red, he remarks : " There are probably several 



