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1903. 15. Budd-Hansen, 1903:131. fig. 16. Beach and Clark, N. Y. Sta. Bui, 

 248:133. 1904. 



SYNONYMS. MONMOUTH PIPPIN (i, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, n, 13). Mon- 

 mouth Pippin (16). Red Cheek (4, 8). Red Cheeked Pippin (10). Red 

 Cheek Pippin (4, 7, n, 12, 15). 



An apple of the Rhode Island Greening class, not equal to that 

 variety in quality but more attractive in color, being often dis- 

 tinctly blushed with a lively pinkish-red. As grown at this 

 Station : ts keeping quality varies much in different years. Some- 

 times it may be held in good condition through the winter or 

 into the spring, but more often its commercial limit in ordinary 

 storage hardly extends beyond November. When stored in good 

 condition its season in cold storage may extend till June (14, 16). 

 In ordinary storage the percentage of loss often becomes high 

 early in the winter, but sometimes not before March. It appears 

 to be much less subject to scald than Rhode Island Greening. It 

 it a good apple for the home orchard. It is not recommended 

 for general commercial planting, but probably in favorable 

 localities it would prove a profitable variety. The tree appears 

 to be hardy and long-lived. It comes into bearing moderately 

 young and is a reliable cropper, bearing good crops biennially 

 or almost annually, but under ordinary cultivation it is hardly 

 as vigorous as could be desired. The fruit of marketable grades 

 is smooth and attractive in appearance, but there may be a con- 

 siderable loss in low-grade fruit. 



Historical. Monmouth is a native of Monmouth county, N. J. (4). It has 

 long been known in cultivation and is found in scattering localities from the 

 Middle West to the Atlantic, but in none of them is it grown extensively. It 

 is still offered by nurserymen (13) and is planted to a limited extent. 



TREE. 



Tree of medium size, moderately vigorous ; branches short, stout, crooked. 

 Form roundish spreading, somewhat open. Twigs short to medium, straight, 

 moderately stout or rather slender ; internodes short to medium. Bark dark 

 reddish-brown mingled with olive-green, lightly streaked with scarf-skin, 

 heavily pubescent. Lenticels scattering, small to medium, oblong, slightly 

 raised. Buds small to medium, obtuse to acute, appressed, very deeply set in 

 the bark, somewhat pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit above medium to large. Form oblate to roundish, somewhat inclined 

 to conic, flattened at the base, somewhat irregular, often obscurely ribbed ; 

 sides often unequal. Stem short to medium, rather thick. County moderately 



