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ionally with thin outspreading russet rays. Calyx small to medium, closed 

 or partly open. Basin shallow, occasionally moderately deep and abrupt, 

 somewhat furrowed, wrinkled. 



Skin tough, slightly waxy, smooth, pale green or whitish often with a faint, 

 dull blush. Dots numerous, rather large, conspicuous, submerged, whitish, 

 mingled with a few fine russet points. 



Calyx tube long, narrow, funnel-shape. Stamens median or below. 



Core medium or below, somewhat abaxile; cells pretty symmetrical, open 

 or partly closed ; core lines clasping. Carpels roundish to somewhat elliptical, 

 broad, slightly tufted. Seeds rather short, plump, obtuse. 



Flesh nearly white, firm, rather crisp, moderately fine-grained, juicy, sub- 

 acid with mild, pleasing aroma, good. 



Season December to May. 



HOLMES SWEET* 



REFERENCE, i. Downing, 1872:220. 



Described by Downing as a medium sized yellow apple with red cheek. 

 Flesh tender, sweet, mingled with subacid. Season November to February. 

 Origin, Niagara county, N. Y. (i). Now practically obsolete. 



Not the Holmes of Thacher. 



HUBBARDSTON. 



REFERENCES, i. Kenrick, 1832:47. 2. Manning, 1838:62. 3. Mag. Hort., 

 7:45. 1841. 4. Downing, 1845:113. 5. Mag. Hort., 14:545- 1848. fig. 6. Ib., 

 15:63. 1849. 7. Thomas, 1849:166, 167. fig. 8. Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 3:65. 1851. col. pis. 51 and 74. 9. Hovey, 1:67. 1852. col. pi, fig. 10. Am. 

 Pom. Soc. Cat., 1852. n. Hooper, 1857:46. 12. Oberdieck, ///. Handb. der 

 Obslk., 8:137. 13. Warder, 1867:600. fig. 14. Mag. Hort., 34:27. 1868. 15. 

 Leroy, 1873:497. fig. 16. Barry, 1883:347. 17. Lyon, Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 

 1890:292. 18. Wickson, 1891:244. 19. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:241. 20. 

 Green, Rural N. Y., 57:802. 1898. 21. Eneroth-Smirnoff, 1901:363. 22. 

 Budd-Hansen, 1903:100. fig. 23. Can. Hort., 26:89. IQC3- fig- 2 4- Powell 

 and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 48:44. 1903. 25. Beach and Clark, N. Y. 

 Sta. Bui, 248:125. 1904. 



SYNONYMS. AMERICAN BLUSH (20). American Blush (25). American 

 Nonparcillc (15). Hubbardston (18). HUBBARDSTON NONSUCH (i, 2, 3, 5, 

 6, 7, 8, 9, IT, 13, 14, 16, 19, 21, 22). Hubbardston Nonsuch (15, 23, 24, 25). 

 John May (15). NONPARETLLE DE HUBBARDSTON (15). NONSUCH (18). 

 Nonesuch (24, 25). Orleans (25). SONDERGLEICHEN VON HUBBARDSTON 

 (12). Van Vlcct. 



Hubbardston is an excellent variety for commercial planting and 

 deserves to be better known among New York fruit growers. It 

 varies remarkably under different conditions of soil and climate not 

 only in vigor of tree but in certain fruit characters also, such as size, 

 color, degree of smoothness or russeting of the skin and in the quality 



