134 THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 



Skin thick, tough, smooth, yellow with orange-red blush, in highly colored 

 specimens deepening to a bright deep red mottled and striped with dull 

 carmine. Dots pale or russet, not conspicuous. 



Calyx tube long, narrow, funnel-form, often extending to the core. Stamens 

 median. 



Core somewhat abaxile, medium or below ; cells often unsymmetrical, closed 

 or partly open ; core lines clasping. Carpels broadly roundish to obcordate, 

 somewhat emarginate, mucronate. Seeds numerous, medium or above, plump, 

 obtuse, rather light brown. 



Flesh yellowish, firm, moderately coarse, rather crisp, rather tender, juicy, 

 mild subacid becoming nearly sweet, slightly aromatic, good. 



Season December to April. 



FRENCH PIPPIN. 



The name French Pippin has been applied to several varieties of the Fall 

 Pippin group. These vary in season from autumn till late spring or early 

 summer and are characterized by rather large, roundish or oblong fruit which 

 at first is green but later assumes more or less of a yellowish tone. It is some- 

 times slightly blushed and has yellowish subacid flesh. 



An apple of this class is described on a following page as the Lehigh Green- 

 ing, the name under which it has been disseminated within recent years from 

 Allentown, Pennsylvania. Some believe that the Lehigh Greening is identical 

 with an old variety grown in portions of Southeastern Pennsylvania under 

 the name French Pippin. 



An apple which is grown in some parts of New York under the name 

 French Pippin is described below. It is a very late keeper being in season 

 from January to May or June. The fruit is large, brightly colored and at- 

 tractive for a yellow apple. It bears a very close resemblance to Lehigh 

 Greening and possibly is identical with it. Comparisons of the fruit from 

 various localities have been made but as yet we have been unable to decide 

 whether or not these two are identical. We have not determined definitely 

 whether the variety described below is the French Pippin of Southeastern 

 Pennsylvania above mentioned, nor whether it is the variety referred to by 

 \Yarderi and Downing 2 as the French Pippin of Pennsylvania. 



TREE. 



Tree medium in size to rather large, moderately vigorous, a biennial or 

 in some cases an annual bearer, a reliable cropper and productive. Form up- 

 right, somewhat spreading. Twigs medium in length; erect, moderately 

 stout; bark rather dark. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit large to very large, pretty uniform in size and shape. Form roundish 

 to roundish oblate, faintly ribbed, pretty regular, sides sometimes slightly 

 unequal. Stem short, moderately thick. Cavity acute to acuminate, moder- 

 ately deep to deep, narrow to rather wide, thinly russeted, sometimes com- 

 pressed or lipped. Calyx medium in size, somewhat open; lobes acuminate. 



'Warder, 1867:; 19. 

 'Downing, 1857: 144. 



