DESCRIPTION OF APPLES AND PEARS. 23! 



Hardiness 5 in nursery and while young in the 

 orchard, but when established in the orchard and 

 sound, with age, it is as good as 3 or better. This 

 rating refers to the Missouri valley. East of 

 the great inter-river divide it is very tender in 

 the north, especially after it has come into bearing. 



Fruit, large, ovate conic, yellow ground striped 

 with carmine, shaded to mottled greenish yellow 

 on the shady side. 



Quality barely good, by some rated poor. Flesh 

 moderately fine grained, not very juicy, very mild 

 sub-acid, and lacks tone in flavor. Season, Decem- 

 ber to late winter, and under favorable conditions 

 till early summer. 



This is the great market apple of the southwest. 

 It is an early and abundant bearer, and if it were 

 some hardier, and as good as Grimes' Golden it 

 would be the perfection of tree and fruit. It should 

 not be grown in the north on very strong soil, but 

 rather poorer ones on the highest lands, and if 

 care is taken to plant sound trees and get them to 

 a bearing age so, they will be found to stand as well 

 as the Walbrige, and nearly as well as the Wealthy. 

 There are trees near Battle Creek, Nebraska, that 

 have been in bearing over twenty years and are 

 still very sound and look as if they might be good 

 for many more years. 



Notwithstanding its lack in quality and the 

 prophecy that it would soon be of little value as a 

 market apple ("when people found it out"), it still 

 maintains the lead, though this may not beheld 



