!8o THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 



desirable apples for that region (i, 2), but it has made little headway as a 

 commercial variety and is gradually passing out of cultivation. It keeps 

 rather better than Baldwin but is less attractive in appearance having a rather 

 dull red color as it comes from the tree. It has been valued because of its 

 fine dessert quality particularly in the spring but as it has a rather mild flavor 

 it is less highly esteemed for culinary use. The tree is somewhat subject to 

 canker. It bears biennially or in some cases almost annually and yields good 

 crops. The fruit hangs well to the tree. 



Historical. Disseminated from Lancaster, Pa. (4), and formerly planted 

 to some extent in some portions of New York and the Middle West (i, 2, 

 3, 4, 6, 7). Occasionally very old trees of the variety are found still growing 

 in New York in old orchards, but we have no knowledge of its being planted 

 within recent years. 



TREE. 



Tree medium in size, a moderately vigorous grower. Form erect. Twigs 

 medium in length, rather stout, rather thick at tips, straight or nearly so; 

 internodes short. Bark dull reddish-brown, uniformly overlaid with a thin 

 scarf-skin ; heavily pubescent. Lenticels scattering, conspicuous, below medium 

 in size, round, somewhat raised. Buds medium, moderately projecting, 

 roundish, adhering, very pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit medium to large. Form varies from oblate to roundish, often tend- 

 ing to elliptical and somewhat ribbed ; sides usually a little unequal ; fairly 

 uniform in shape and size. Stem short, not exserted. Cavity somewhat fur- 

 rowed, sometimes compressed, narrow to moderately wide, rather deep, acumi- 

 nate, green or russet, often lipped. Calyx closed or partly open ; lobes pubes- 

 cent. Basin somewhat variable, usually obtuse but sometimes rather abrupt, 

 medium in width and depth, furrowed and wrinkled. 



Skin thick, tough, smooth, light yellow or greenish nearly covered with red, 

 mottled and striped with crimson and conspicuously marked with grayish 

 areolar dots which are mingled with smaller, whitish or russet dots. Pre- 

 vailing color striped red, sometimes clear and bright but more often dulled 

 by a waxy coating of bluish bloom. 



Calyx tube inclined to funnel-form. Stamens median. 



Core medium to rather small, somewhat abaxile ; cells usually pretty sym- 

 metrical, closed or partly open; core lines somewhat clasping. Carpels 

 broadly roundish, emarginate, somewhat tufted. Seeds tufted, medium or 

 below, obtuse to acute, plump, numerous. 



Flesh white or nearly so, firm, tender, crisp, juicy, mild subacid, agreeably 

 aromatic, good to very good for dessert, less desirable for culinary uses. 



Season December to May. 



LADY. 



REFERENCES, i. Duhamel, 1768:309. 2. Knoop, 1771:68. 3. Forsyth, 1803: 

 49. 4- Coxe, 1817:117. fig. 5. Thacher, 1822:129. 6. Ronalds, 1831:63. 7. 

 Cat. Hort. Soc. London, 1831. 8. Kenrick, 1832:47. 9. Floy-Lindley, 1833: 

 87. 10. Manning, 1838:59. n. Downing, 1845:115. fig. 12. Cole, 1849:130. 

 13. Thomas, 1849:181, 189. fig. 14. Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 3:89. 1851. 



