no THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 



Form upright spreading " with a straggling, open head and bearing its fruit 

 crowded along the smaller branches" (n). Twigs above medium to long, 

 moderately stout ; internodes long. Bark smooth, clear reddish-brown, some- 

 times with a slight undertone of yellowish-green uniformly overlaid with a 

 thin scarf-skin, rather pubescent. Lenticels rather inconspicuous, raised, mod- 

 erately numerous, above medium, generally roundish. Buds above medium, 

 roundish to acute, free or nearly so, quite pubescent. Leaves long, drooping 

 and characteristically twisted. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit usually about medium in size, sometimes large or very large. Form 

 usually oblate, sometimes inclined to oblong and distinctly flattened at the base, 

 sides often somewhat unequal, ribbed. Stem medium to long, slender at the 

 base. Cavity obtuse, wide, deep, often distinctly furrowed, usually with out- 

 spreading brown russet rays. Calyx below medium to large, closed or slightly 

 open ; lobes long, acute. Basin pubescent, rather shallow to moderately deep, 

 wide or compressed, abrupt, usually distinctly furrowed. 



Skin thick, tough, smooth, bright, whitish-yellow or green mottled and 

 splashed with deep pinkish-red, striped with bright carmine and overlaid with 

 thin whitish bloom. Dots pale or yellow, numerous toward the basin, but 

 toward the cavity they are scattering, large, often irregular and with russet 

 center. 



Calyx tube funnel-shape with a wide limb and short truncate cylinder. 

 Stamens median to marginal. 



Core small, somewhat abaxile; cells usually symmetrical, closed or partly 

 open ; core lines nearly meeting or clasping. Carpels broadly elliptical, slightly 

 emarginate. Seeds numerous, large, plump, moderately narrow, long, acute, 

 dark. 



Flesh whitish or tinged with light yellow, very firm, breaking, somewhat 

 coarse, tender, juicy, mild subacid with a peculiar aromatic flavor, good to 

 very good. 



Season November to March. 



DOUBLE ROSE. 



The tree is exceedingly productive and comes into bearing young. The fruit 

 is beautiful, being almost wholly overspread with a bright deep red but it is 

 too small to be valuable for ordinary market uses and it does not rank high 

 enough in quality to be classed with fruit suitable for fancy trade. It is not 

 recommended for planting in New York. 



Received from Jaroslav Niemetz, Winnitza, Podolia, Russia, in 1898, for 

 testing at this Station. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit small, roundish or oblong conic. Stem long to medium, set in a deep, 

 rather wide, russeted cavity. Calyx closed or partly open. Basin abrupt, 

 moderately deep. Skin smooth yellow overspread with light red sometimes 

 deepening to dark red. Core medium, nearly closed. Flesh tinged with yellow, 

 moderately coarse, mild subacid, fair to possibly good. 



Season November to February. 



