Descriptions of Select Varieties of Apples. 1 17 



wished." Mr. Sanger was content, however, to possess the 

 scions, and, from that period, the Porter grew rapidly in favor, 

 and no orchard could be considered complete without it. The 

 tree is of vigorous and upright habit, though of rather slow 

 growth, making short-jointed wood, and forming a low spread- 

 ing head. It is also very productive, and the fruit remarkably 

 fair. 



Fig. 12. Porter. 



Size, large, about two and a half inches broad, and three 

 deep : Form, oblong, largest about one third from the stem, 

 little flattened at the base, narrowing to the crown, which is 

 slightly oblique, and somewhat ribbed : Ski7i, fair, smooth, 

 clear bright yellow, faintly striped and marbled with a dull 

 blush on the sunny side, and marked with a few crimson 

 dots : Ste}7i, rather short, about three quarters of an inch long, 

 slender, curved, and inserted in an open, broad, and not very 

 deep cavity : Eye, rather large, open, and sunk in a moderately 

 deep ribbed hollow; segments of the calyx long, regularly 

 formed, and reflexed at the ends : Flesh, yellowish, fine, crisp 



