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This appears to be the variety which Hansen describes under 

 the name Titovka Department, which name he adopts to distin- 

 guish it on the one hand from a variety called Titovka with 

 Titus Riga as a synonym and on the other from a variety called 

 Titovka Speer (23). 



Historical Imported from Russia by the U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture in 1870. It was received in 1883 from Ellwanger and Barry, Rochester, 

 N. Y., for testing at this Station. In 1897 it was entered in the catalogue 

 of the American Pomological Society as a variety of value in the pomo- 

 logical district which includes the Dakotas, Montana and Wyoming (19). 

 It is but little known in New York and so far as we can learn its cultiva- 

 tion is not increasing in this state. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit large. Form roundish or somewhat oblong, a little inclined to conic, 

 nearly regular, pretty symmetrical. Stem short, usually not exserted. Cavity 

 acuminate, very deep, sometimes slightly russeted. Calyx medium size, 

 closed; segments small, convergent. Basin moderately shallow to deep, very 

 abrupt, wrinkled. 



Skin smooth, pale green becoming yellow, shaded and striped with bright 

 red and overspread with light bloom. 



Calyx tube elongated cone-shape or funnel-form. Stamens median or 

 below. 



Core rather large, somewhat abaxile ; cells pretty symmetrical, open ; 

 core lines clasping. Carpels broadly roundish or somewhat obovate, emar- 

 ginate. Seeds, few, rather small, plump. 



Flesh whitish, coarse, crisp, juicy, subacid, good to very good for culinary 

 uses. 



Season August and September. 



TOM PUTT. 



REFERENCES, i. London Hort. Soc. Cat., 1831 :No. 1299. 2. Hogg, 1884: 

 229. 



SYNONYMS. Coalbrook (2). Marrow-bone (2). TOM PUT (i). TOM 

 PUTT (2). 



A rather attractive red apple of good size, moderately coarse, subacid, fair 

 to good for culinary uses. The tree is a moderately vigorous grower, 

 comes into bearing rather early and yields full crops annually or nearly 

 annually. As compared with standard varieties of its season it does not 

 appear to be worthy of the attention of New York fruit growers. 



Historical. This is an old English variety (i, 2). In 1892 it was re- 

 ceived for testing here from W. and T. Smith, Geneva, N. Y. 



