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mottled with scarf-skin, rather pubescent. Lenticels quite numerous, medium 

 or below, oval or elongated, slightly raised. Buds medium to large, broad, 

 plump, acute, free, slightly pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit rather large to medium. Form oblate, fairly symmetrical, broadly 

 and obscurely ribbed, sometimes a little onesided. Stem very short. Cavity 

 acute to acuminate, broad, deep, with radiating red stripes, sometimes thinly 

 russeted. Calyx small to rather large, closed or partly open ; lobes often erect. 

 Basin usually abrupt, moderately wide to wide, rather deep, sometimes com- 

 pressed, somewhat furrowed and slightly wrinkled. 



Skin smooth, waxen, glossy, whitish-yellow or green largely overspread 

 with bright red being blushed and mottled with light red striped and splashed 

 with deep carmine. Dots whitish or russet, small. 



Calyx tube long, meeting the core, varying from slender and funnel-form 

 to wide cone-shape. Stamens basal. 



Core small to medium, abaxile ; cells often symmetrical and closed, some- 

 times open and unsymmetrical ; core lines somewhat clasping. Carpels broadly 

 roundish to elliptical and almost truncate. Seeds short, wide, plump, obtuse, 

 dark. 



Flesh white, often streaked or stained with red, firm, tender, very crisp, 

 moderately coarse, very juicy, mild subacid with a peculiar aroma which is 

 not altogether pleasing, fair to almost good in quality. 



Season November to April but in common storage it is apt to scald after 

 January. 



KANSAS GREENING. 



REFERENCES, i. Beach, N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 14:261. 1895. a. Ib., 15:281. 

 1896. 3. Beach and Clark, .V. Y. Sta. Bui, 248:127. 1904. 



Fruit unattractive, medium to rather small, roundish to roundish conic, 

 grass-green with a dull brownish-red cheek ; mild subacid, not high in quality 

 but a good keeper. The tree is not a good grower and does not come into 

 bearing very young. It yields moderate crops biennially. Not worthy of 

 planting in New York. 



KANSAS KEEPER. 



REFERENCES, i. Stayman, Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1877:44. a. Powell and 

 Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui., 48:46. 1903. 3. Beach and Clark, N. Y. Sta. Bui, 

 248:127. 1904. 



SYNONYM. KANSAS (2). 



Kansas Keeper as grown in Western New York is usually less highly 

 colored than when grown in more southern localities and often is below good 

 marketable size and rather dull and unattractive in color. It is a very late 

 keeper. The tree comes into bearing moderately young, and bears annually, 

 yielding moderate crops. 



Historical. Origin unknown (i). We have not had the opportunity of 

 deciding whether it is identical with Keeper.l 



1 U. S. Pom. Rpt., 1895:27. Taylor, Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1897=39. Ragan, U. S. B. 

 P. I. Bui., 66:161, 162. 1905. 

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