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decidedly spreading with the laterals inclined to droop. Twigs medium to 

 long, nearly straight, rather slender to moderately stout ; internodes short. 

 Bark more or less dark dull brown overspread with grayish-green and streaked 

 with gray scarf-skin, slightly pubescent near tips. Lenticels numerous, dull, 

 not very conspicuous, above medium to below, roundish, slightly raised. Buds 

 medium to rather short, plump, obtuse, appressed, pubescent, deeply set in 

 bark. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit medium to large. Form roundish, somewhat inclined to oblate, sym- 

 metrical, usually pretty regular, sometimes faintly ribbed; pretty uniform in 

 size and shape. Stem short to medium, usually not exserted. Cavity acumi- 

 nate, rather narrow to moderately wide, deep, usually russeted, and often 

 with outspreading broken russet, somewhat furrowed. Calyx small to medium, 

 closed or partly open ; lobes medium in length, acute. Basin somewhat abrupt, 

 rather narrow to moderately wide, usually pretty symmetrical, furrowed and 

 wrinkled. 



Skin moderately thick, tough, at first deep green, often partly overspread 

 with a brownish-red blush tinged with shade of olive-green but late in the 

 season it develops a pronounced yellow color. Dots numerous, large, con- 

 spicuous, areolar, whitish with russet center. 



Calyx tube moderately wide, cone-shape. Stamens below median to basal. 



Core below medium to small, usually axile or nearly so ; cells pretty sym- 

 metrical, usually closed, sometimes open ; core lines meeting or slightly clasp- 

 ing. Carpels smooth, broad, narrowing towards the base and apex or ap- 

 proaching truncate at the base, but slightly emarginate if at all. Seeds numer- 

 ous, medium or above, wide, obtuse to acute, dark. 



Flesh yellowish, moderately coarse, moderately juicy, at first very hard and 

 firm but later becoming moderately tender and somewhat crisp, subacid, fair 

 to good. 



Season. Commercial limit March or April in ordinary storage and May in 

 cold storage (16). 



MARIGOLD, 



REFERENCES, i. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:244. 2. Powell and Fulton, U. S. 



B. P. I. Bui, 48:49. 1903. 3. Beach and Clark, A'. 7. Sta. Bui, 248:131. 1904. 



DOUBTFUL REFERENCES. 4. Knight, Pomona Herefordiensis, 1811. (cited by 



6). 5. Kenrick, 1832:48. 6. Floy-Lindley, 1833:80. 7. Downing, 1869:294. 

 8. Hogg, 1884:164. 



DOUBTFUL SYNONYMS. Isle of Wight Orange (6, 7). Isle of Wight Pippin 



(6, 8). Marigold Pippin (7). Marygold (6). ORANGE PIPPIN (6, 7, 8). 



A good dessert variety of desirable size and rather attractive appearance 

 for a yellowish apple but it does not excel standard varieties of its season in 

 color, size or quality. The tree does not come into bearing very young. It 

 is an annual or nearly annual bearer and yields moderate crops. As grown 

 at this Station the commercial limit of Marigold appears to be November or 

 December in ordinary storage, although some portion of the fruit may be 

 kept till June. The fruit held in cold storage till May has been found still 

 hard, free from decay and but slightly scalded (2, 3). 



