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PICTA STRIATA. 



REFERENCES. I. Ellwanger and Barry, Cat., 1888:14. 2. Beach, N. Y. Sta. 

 Am. Rpt., 12:601. 1893. 3. Ragan, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 56:370. 1905. 

 SYNONYMS. PICTA STRIATA (i, 2). PIETA (3). Picta Striata (3). 



Fruit handsome, rather mild in flavor; season late fall and early winter. 

 It is hardly large enough for a good commercial variety. The tree is a 

 good grower, comes into bearing rather late and is an annual cropper yield- 

 ing moderate to good crops. 



Historical. Received from Ellwanger and Barry, Rochester, N. Y., in 

 1888 for testing at this Station. 



TREE. 



Tree rather large. Form upright spreading to roundish with rather droop- 

 ing laterals. Twigs long, curved, slender; internodes short. Bark clear 

 brown, tinged with green, lightly mottled with scarf-skin ; slightly pubes- 

 cent near tips. Lenticels quite numerous, rather conspicuous, medium size, 

 oval, not raised. Buds medium size, plump, acute, free, not pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit medium or above, uniform in size but not in shape. Form oblate 

 or roundish oblate, irregularly ribbed. Stem long, slender. Cavity obtuse, 

 medium to rather deep, medium to broad, compressed, smooth or nearly so. 

 Calyx usually small, closed; lobes separated at base, long, medium in 

 width, acute to acuminate. Basin shallow to medium in depth, medium in 

 width, obtuse, nearly smooth. 



Skin thin, tender, smooth, rather glossy, pale greenish-yellow nearly cov- 

 ered with crimson, blushed and striped with carmine. Dots indistinct, small, 

 gray. 



Calyx tube moderately short, rather narrow, conical to urn-shape. Stamens 

 marginal or nearly so. 



Core medium to large, axile ; cells slightly open or closed ; core lines 

 clasping. Carpels roundish to elliptical, concave, deeply emarginate, some- 

 times tufted. Seeds rather dark brown, medium size, wide, short, obtuse. 



Flesh tinged with yellow, firm, a little coarse, tender, juicy, somewhat 

 astringent, sprightly subacid, good. 



Season October to early winter. 



QUAKER. 



REFERENCES, i. Rural N. Y., 1870 (cited by 7). 2. Bailey, An. Hort., 

 1892:247. 3. Thomas, 1897:299. 4. Lyon, Mich. Sta. Bui, 152:224. 1898. 

 5. Farrand, Ib._, 205 :48. 1903. 6. Budd-Hansen, 1903 :224. 7. Ragan, U. S. 

 B. P. I. Bui, 56:371. 1905. 



SYNONYMS. None. 



This variety has been disseminated more in the western states than it 

 has in New York. It is but little grown here. Farrand (5) describes it as 



