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small and closed, set in a round, narrow, and plaited basin. 

 Stalk, very short, imbedded in a wide and deep cavity. Flesh, 

 yellowish-white, firm, tender, juicy, sweet, and briskly acid. 



"A valuable apple of first-rate quality for culinary purposes; 

 it is in use from November to March. The tree is a strong 

 grower, vigorous, healthy, and a good bearer." 



This variety is surely distinct from the one described by 

 Downing 1 and commonly grown in the Hudson valley and to 

 some extent in other portions of the state under the name of 

 Holland Pippin. The Holland Pippin of Downing begins to 

 ripen somewhat earlier than the Fall Pippin, while the variety 

 here described keeps till spring. Since both of these varieties 

 are known in cultivation in this country under the name of Holland 

 Pippin it is well to distinguish between the two by calling the late 

 keeping one Holland Winter. 



It is a green apple of the Reinette Pippin class, not equal to 

 Rhode Island Greening in flavor or quality for dessert or culinary 

 uses but it is a better keeper and less liable to scald. It 

 is attractive for a green apple in both size and color. The tree is a 

 strong grower, healthy and productive, and usually is an annual 

 bearer alternating heavy with rather light crops. It appears to be 

 of sufficient value to be worthy of planting for trial as a commercial 

 variety where a late keeping apple of this type is desired. 



Historical. If this is in fact the Holland Pippin of Langley and Miller it is 

 an old variety "native of the Holland district of Lincolnshire, hence its 

 name" (4). 



TREE. 



Tree vigorous ; branches long, moderately stout. Form spreading or 

 roundish, rather open. Twigs moderately long, straight, stout ; internodes 

 short to medium. Bark clear reddish-brown with some olive-green, streaked 

 lightly with scarf-skin, heavily pubescent near the tips. Lcnticels numerous, 

 small, roundish, sometimes raised, rather conspicuous. Buds large to above 

 medium, broad, obtuse, free near the old wood but quite appressed near the 

 tips; heavily pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit medium to large. Form roundish conic, symmetrical, regular or 

 sometimes faintly ribbed. Stem medium or short and rather thick. Cavity 

 acute or approaching acuminate, rather large and slightly furrowed, occas- 



1 Downing, 1872 :z 19. 



