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tive pale yellow or whitish background. It is highly esteemed in 

 portions of New England (5, 8), and is there being planted to some 

 extent both for home use and commercial purposes. It is an 

 excellent nursery tree and a good grower In the orchard. It is 

 hardy, healthy, comes into bearing quite young and is a reliable 

 cropper, yielding good crops biennially. There is some loss from 

 drops, but the fruit averages pretty uniform in size with a rather 

 low percentage of culls. So far as tested in this state it appears 

 to be pretty reliable and satisfactory in color and quality and 

 suitable for general market purposes and culinary use. It is 

 evidently worthy of testing as a commercial variety, particularly 

 in the more elevated and northern portions of the state. In the 

 southeastern part of the state it would probably be classed as a 

 late autumn variety, but as grown at this Station it becomes an 

 early winter or midwinter variety (n). 



Historical. Milden is a variety of comparatively recent introduction. It 

 originated at Alton, New Hampshire (2). 



TREE. 



Tree large, vigorous. Form upright becoming roundish, rather dense. 

 Tn'igs below medium to short, straight, moderately stout; internodes short 

 to long. Bark very dark olive-green somewhat tinged with reddish-brown 

 streaked with scarf-skin ; pubescent. Lenticels quite numerous, small to 

 medium, roundish, slightly raised. Buds prominent, below medium to large, 

 broad, plump, obtuse, free, pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit rather large; fairly uniform in size and shape. Form oblate, some- 

 times inclined to conic, pretty regular, often faintly ribbed ; sides sometimes 

 unequal. Stem short to medium, pubescent. Cavity acute to acuminate, deep, 

 rather wide, symmetrical or somewhat furrowed, often russeted and with out- 

 spreading russet rays. Caly.r large, pubescent: lobes long, acuminate, closed 

 or partly open. Basin obtuse to somewhat abrupt, usually rather shallow, 

 moderately wide, often compressed or furrowed. 



Skin waxy, rather thin, tough. Well-colored specimens are beautifully 

 mottled with bright red and striped and splashed with bright carmine over 

 a pale yellow background. Sometimes the red deepens to a solid blush. Dots 

 inconspicuous, few, gray or russet. 



Calyx tube rather large, long, cone-shape or somewhat funnel-form, meeting 

 the core. Stamens median. 



Core distant, medium or below, abaxile ; cells pretty symmetrical, usually 

 open; core lines clasping. Carpels roundish to elongated ovate, acuminate, 

 slightly emarginate, tufted. Seeds variable in size and shape, often about 

 medium size, moderately narrow, obtuse to acute; often some are abortive. 



