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narrow, acute. Basin rather small, medium to rather shallow, narrow, a 

 little abrupt, smooth or slightly wrinkled. 



Skin rather thick, tough, smooth, pale greenish-yellow often changing to 

 yellowish-white, sometimes faintly blushed. Dots numerous, small, often 

 light colored and submerged, sometimes russet. 



Calyx tube long, wide at top, conical to funnel-shape. Stamens median. 



Core rather large to medium, abaxile to nearly axile ; cells closed or open ; 

 core lines clasping. Carpels roundish to cordate, slightly emarginate, slightly 

 tufted. Seeds light brown, medium to rather small, plump, acute. 



Flesh white, moderately firm, fine, somewhat crisp, very tender, juicy, 

 sweet, slightly aromatic, good to very good. 



Season August and early September. 



SWEET FALL PIPPIN. 



REFERENCES, i. Downing, 1857:192. 2. Warder, 1867:733. 3. Thomas, 



1875:513- 



SYNONYMS. None. 



A large, greenish-yellow apple, good either for dessert or for culinary 

 uses ; in season from October to January. The tree is large, spreading, 

 vigorous to very vigorous, hardy and a reliable cropper yielding good crops 

 annually or nearly annually. It is not a good variety for commercial plant- 

 ing. Downing refers to it as being grown in Westchester county (i). It 

 is also occasionally found in Western New York. We do not find it listed 

 by nurserymen and it is gradually going out of cultivation. 



SWEET RUSSET. 



REFERENCES, i. Warder, 1867 :528. fig. 2. Downing, 1869 1377. 3. Bailey, 

 An. Hort., 1892:250. 



SYNONYMS. Summer Russet (2). SWEET RUSSET (i, 2, 3). 



A small roundish or oblate apple, yellow, mostly covered with light russet 

 tinged with red in the sun, juicy, sweet, very good; season September and 

 October. Tree large, spreading and drooping, a moderately vigorous grower, 

 hardy, long-lived and usually a reliable cropper yielding good crops bien- 

 nially. Origin unknown. It was at one time disseminated by Parsons and 

 Company, Flushing, N. Y. 



The name Sweet Russet has also been applied to the variety described as 

 Pumpkin Russet on page 170. 



SWITZER. 



REFERENCES, i. Hoskins, Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1880:50. 2. ///. Hort. 

 Soc. Rpt., 1881 155. 3. Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1883 191. 4. Gibb, la. Hort. 

 Soc.-Rpt., 1883:436. 5. la. Agr. Coll. Bui, 1885:12. No. 304. 6. Montreal 

 Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1886-87:16. 7. Can. Hort., 12:344. 1889. 8. Am. Pom. 

 Soc. Cat., 1889:14. 9. Budd, la. Agr. Coll. Bui, 1890:18. No. 304. 10. 



