82 THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 



Core medium to rather small, abaxile; cells often unsymmetrical, open; 

 core lines clasping the funnel cylinder. Carpels ovate. Seeds medium to 

 rather small, rather narrow, angular, acute, medium brown. 



Flesh .yellowish-white, firm, fine-grained, moderately tender, juicy, very 

 sweet, aromatic, good to very good. 



Season mid-August to late September. 



GOLDEN WHITE. 



REFERENCES, i. Gibb, la. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1883 : 447- 2 - Brodie, Montreal 

 Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1885:72. 3. Hoskins, Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1886:221. 

 4. Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1886-7:16. 5. Can. Hort., 13:157, 332. 1890. 

 6. Beach and Paddock, N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 14:252. 1895. 7. Beach, IV. N. 

 Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1896:50. 8. Buad-Hansen, 1903:91. 



SYNONYMS. Be el Solotofskaja (i). GOLDEN WHITE (i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). 

 No. 978 (3, 5, 8). No. 979 (8). No. 981 (8). 



Fruit of medium size, greenish-yellow, streaked with bright red in the sun, 

 subacid, fair quality; season September. The tree comes into bearing rather 

 young, and yields full crops biennially. Evidently not desirable for planting 

 in New York. 



Historical. A Russian apple received for testing at this Station from T. H. 

 Hoskins, Newport, Vt, in 1888. 



TREE. 



Tree rather small, a slow grower with short, stout branches. Form 

 spreading, open. Twigs short, curved, stout, with large terminal buds ; inter- 

 nodes short. Bark dull brown mingled with olive-green, coated with gray 

 scarf-skin ; heavily pubescent. Lenticels scattering, large, oval or elongated, 

 raised. Buds large, prominent, broad, plump, obtuse, free, much pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit medium size. Form oblate inclined to conic, flattened at the base, 

 ribbed. Stem small to medium. Cavity small, acuminate, narrow, moderately 

 shallow, russeted. Calyx open or partly open. Basin large, irregular, 

 moderately deep, wrinkled. 



Skin greenish-yellow nearly overlaid with red and striped with carmine. 

 Dots numerous, large, light. Prevailing effect red or striped red. 



Calyx tube large, cone-shape to funnel-form. 



Core medium size, somewhat abaxile ; cells usually symmetrical, closed or 

 partly open; core lines clasping. Carpels roundish, emarginate, tufted. 

 Seeds above medium, plump, wide, obtuse. 



Flesh white with faint salmon tinge, fine-grained, moderately juicy, subacid, 

 fair or sometimes good in quality. 



Season September and October. 



GOLDING. 



REFERENCES, i. London Hort. Soc. Cat., 1831 :No. 479. 2. Kenrick, 1835: 

 64. 3. Downing, 1857:79. fig. 4. Mag. Hort., 30:162. 1864. 5. Warder, 

 1867:636. fig. 6. Thomas, 1875:226. 7. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1877:6, 



