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27:69. 1861. ii. Horticulturist, 17:103, 150. 1862. 12. Mag. Hort., 32:17. 

 1866. 13. Warder, 1867:643. fig. 14. Downing, 1869:313. 15. Fitz, 1872: 

 161. 16. Thomas, 1875:196. 17. Downing, 1881:11, 12 index, app. 18. 

 Barry, 1883:334. 19. Rural N. Y., 47:649. 1888. 20. Lyon, Mich. Hort. 

 Soc. Rpt., 1890:296. 21. Blackwell, Rural N. Y., 50:447. 1891. 22. Bailey, 

 An. Hort., 1892 :247. 23. Hoskins, Rural N. Y., 53 :248. 1894. 24. Can. 

 Hort., 17:252. 1894. 2 5- Woolverton, Ont. Fr. Stas. An. Rpt., 8:9. 1901. 

 figs. 26. Budd-Hansen, 1903:153. fig. 27. Rural N. Y., 62:740. 1903. 



SYNONYMS. Belle Rose (17). Early Baldivin (17). Early Tart Harvest 

 (14). Harvest (2). Highland Pippin (17). July Apple (14). NORTH 

 AMERICAN BEST (9). North American Best (14). Powers (2, 14). PRI- 

 MATE (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, n, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 

 24, 25, 26, 27). ROUGH AND READY (i). Rough and Ready (2, 5, 7, 8, 14). 

 Scott (14). Sour Harvest (9, 14). Zour Bough (9, 14). 



A dessert apple, pale yellow or whitish, often slightly blushed; 

 in season in August and September. It is well known throughout 

 the state, but not much grown except for home use. It is com- 

 monly considered the best apple of its season for the home orchard 

 because the tree is a pretty good grower and a reliable cropper, and 

 the fruit ripens in succession during a period of several weeks and 

 is of fine flavor and excellent quality particularly for dessert use. 

 Being less attractive than a red apple it is in demand in market 

 only where its fine quality is known. The fruit ripens unevenly 

 and it should be picked from time to time as it matures to prevent 

 loss from the dropping of the fruit. In some localities the tree has 

 proved somewhat tender, not very long-lived and rather susceptible 

 to the attacks of the apple canker, but, generally speaking, as grown 

 throughout Central and Western New York, particularly where it 

 has been topworked upon good thrifty stock, the tree is a pretty 

 good grower, moderately long-lived and reliably productive. Often 

 it yields very heavy crops biennially with lighter crops, or none, on 

 alternate years, but in some localities it is almost an annual 

 bearer. 



Historical. This variety was disseminated by traveling grafters in Cen- 

 tral and Western New York as much as fifty years ago. In 1850, Charles P. 

 Cowles of Syracuse in a communication to the Magazine of Horticulture 

 stated: "As it is not known in this place, nor state, by the best judges, I 

 safely think it is a seedling. I found a few trees in Onondaga county in 

 a town of the same name which had been circulated by grafts but nothing 

 further could be traced of its origin. * * * I propose to call it 'Rough 



