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Cat., 1871:8. ii. Lyon, Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1890:294. 12. Taylor, Am. 

 Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1895:193. 13. Burrill and McCluer, ///. Sta. Bui., 45:309, 

 330. 1896. 14. Farrand, Mich. Sta. Bui., 205:42. 1903. 15. Budd-Hansen, 

 1903:120. fig. 



SYNONYMS. Martin (i, 2, 6, 7). MCCLELLAN (i, 5). McLELAN (8, 9). 

 MCLELLAN (2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15). 



A very choice dessert apple, handsome, fragrant, tender and 

 excellent in quality. It comes into season a little later than Maiden 

 Blush and may keep till January or February. When properly 

 colored it is well adapted for fancy market and fruit-stand trade 

 but when the color remains greenish, as it often does, the flavor 

 is inferior. The fruit shows bruises readily and must be handled 

 with extra care. It drops easily from the tree and on this account 

 should be picked as soon as colored. In some cases it may pay to 

 make two pickings. The tree comes into bearing young and is a 

 reliable biennial bearer yielding good crops. It is only a moder- 

 ately vigorous grower and probably it would be an advantage to 

 topwork it upon some more vigorous and longer-lived stock, such 

 as Northern Spy or Baldwin. It is not recommended for extensive 

 commercial planting but in some cases it may be grown to a lim- 

 ited extent with profit. 



Historical. The original tree was planted in a seedling orchard in Wood- 

 stock, Conn., about 1780 (i, 5). It has been sparingly disseminated and is 

 known locally in various parts of New York state, but it is now seldom 

 offered by nurserymen (12) and is little propagated. 



TREE. 



Tree medium in size, moderately vigorous with long and moderately stouc 

 branches. Form erect, roundish, open. Twigs medium to long, erect, stout, 

 generally somewhat curved; internodes short to medium. Bark dull, very 

 dark reddish-brown, sometimes tinged with green and overlaid with rather 

 heavy scarf-skin; rather heavily pubescent. Lenticels quite numerous, not 

 very conspicuous, medium to small, roundish, sometimes a little raised. 

 Buds above medium to large, rather deeply set in the bark, broad, flat, 

 obtuse to somewhat acute, free, very pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit above medium to large; uniform in size and shape. Form roundish 

 oblate to roundish conic, rather broad and flat at the base, symmetrical or 

 nearly so, regular to elliptical. Stem short to medium, slender. Cavity 

 acute to acuminate, rather wide, deep, symmetrical, sometimes a little fur- 



