THE 



Canadian Horticulturist 



Vol XVII. 



1894=. 



No. II. 



GENERAL GRANT CRAB. 



^OR a long time the Siberian Crabs {Pyrus baccata), were only 

 valued as ornamental trees. The flowers were so handsome and 

 profuse, and the clusters of beautiful fruit so dense, that in either 

 stage the tree was counted worthy of a place near the house. 

 But of late so many improved varieties have been produced, that 

 these apples are beginning to take a place among apples proper, and to be 

 planted for their use, as well as for their beauty. Especially is this true in the 

 mere northerly sections where hardihood is the characteristic of first importance. 

 Always valuable for cider, preserves and cooking purposes, some varieties like 

 the Whitney No. 20, which is counted of superior value for drying and canning, 

 the Martha, the Ceneral Crant, and others, deserve, and are esteemed to possess 

 considerable value for some sections. 



Fine samples of General Grant were placed on the tables of the Canadian 

 Fruit Exhibit at the World's Fair, by British Columbia fruit growers : much 

 larger than we grow them in Ontario. 



The General Grant Crab is thus described by Downing : — Size large for a 

 crab ; round, oblate, warm yellow ground, with broken stripes of dark, becoming, 

 on the sun exposed side, entirely red, with a few minute light dots. Stalk 

 slender ; cavity open, moderately deep ; calyx closed ; basin broad, not deep, 

 but conspicuously furrowed ; flesh white, moderately fine-grained ; not juicy ; 

 very mild sub-acid ; core large for size of fruit ; late autumn. 



