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Fruit large, brilliantly colored, good in flavor and quality. The tree is 

 not a vigorous grower, comes into bearing rather early and yields full crops 

 in alternate years. 



Historical. Origin New Hampshire (i). 



TREE. 



Tree a moderately vigorous or rather slow grower with moderately long, 

 stout, crooked branches. Form upright spreading to roundish, open. Twigs 

 short, curved, moderately stout; internodes short. Bark clear brown, min- 

 gled with olive-green, lightly mottled with scarf-skin ; pubescent near tips. 

 Lenticels scattering, small, round, slightly raised. Buds rather prominent, 

 medium to large, long, narrow, acute, free, slightly pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit medium to large. Form oblate or roundish oblate, ribbed. Stem 

 long and slender, often bracted. Cavity acute, broad, deep, russeted. Calyx 

 small ; lobes long, reflexed. Basin rather broad, shallow. 



Skin pale yellow, almost entirely overlaid with bright red deepening to a 

 dark red or purple on the exposed side, dotted with yellow and covered 

 with a heavy bluish bloom. 



Calyx tube elongated cone-shape approaching funnel-form. Stamens 

 marginal. 



Core large, abaxile ; cells open ; core lines clasping. 



Flesh yellowish, tinged with red next the skin, fine-grained, juicy, mild 

 subacid, good in quality and flavor. 



Season August. 



EXCELSIOR. 



REFERENCES, i. ///. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1880. 2. Gideon, Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 

 1885:26. 3. Rural N. Y., 45:184. 1886. figs. 4. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:238. 

 5. Beach and Paddock, N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 13:580. 1894. 6. Munson, Me. 

 Sta. An. Rpt., 12:73. 1896. 7. Lyon, U. S. Pom. Bui., 6:11. 1897. 8. Am. 

 Pom. Soc. Cat., 1897:11. 9. Munson, Me. Sta. An. Rpt., 18:83. 1902. 10. 

 Thomas, 1903:348. n. Budd-Hansen, 1903:218. 12. Farrand, Mich. Sta. 

 Bui, 205:47. 1903. 13. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 48:41. 

 1903. 



SYNONYMS. None. 



Fruit very large for a crabapple being nearly as large as a 

 medium sized apple. It is very attractive in appearance and 

 excellent in quality for either dessert or culinary uses. As 

 grown at this Station it appears to be one of the most desirable 

 varieties of its class during early September. The tree is a 

 good strong grower, hardy, healthy, comes into bearing rather 

 young and yields full crops in alternate years. 



