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flexed. Basin moderately abrupt, shallow, narrow, slightly furrowed or 

 wrinkled. 



Skin thin, yellow nearly overspread with dull, purplish-red and striped with 

 purplish-carmine. Dots numerous, russet, sunken. 



Calyx tube rather narrow, conical or approaching funnel-form. Stamens 

 median. 



Core abaxile, medium to large ; cells open ; core lines meeting or, when the 

 calyx tube is funnel-form, clasping the funnel cylinder. 



Flesh yellowish-white sometimes tinged with red next the skin, firm, fine- 

 grained, crisp, juicy, mild subacid, fair to good. 



OLIVE. 



REFERENCES, i. Downing, 1869:294. 2. Beach and Clark, N. Y. Sta. Bui., 

 248:136. 1904. 3. Ragan, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 56:219. 1905. 



A small red apple, rather attractive in color. Unworthy of consideration 

 by New York fruit growers. The tree comes into bearing young and is pro- 

 ductive being a reliable annual cropper. The fruit hangs well to the tree. 



This is not the Olive of Coxe, 1 neither is it the Olive from Vermont noticed 

 by Downing (i) and described in 1860 in Gardeners Monthly (3). 



Historical. Originated in Wake county, North Carolina (i). It is there 

 a fall apple but as grown at this Station its season extends to midwinter and 

 often a considerable portion of the fruit remains sound till April or later. 



TREE. 



Tree moderately vigorous. Form roundish, or upright spreading, rather 

 dense. Twigs short to above medium, slender, straight but geniculate ; inter- 

 nodes long to medium. Bark clear brown with reddish tinge, lightly streaked 

 with scarf-skin, slightly pubescent near tips. Lenticels rather conspicuous, 

 quite numerous, small to above medium, oval or elongated, usually not raised. 

 Buds deeply set in bark, small, plump, obtuse, appressed, not pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit small to nearly medium, fairly uniform in size and shape. Form 

 roundish inclined to conic, varying to obovate, obscurely ribbed, fairly sym- 

 metrical. Stem short to above medium. Cavity rather small, acute to acumi- 

 nate, moderately deep, rather narrow, usually russeted, often somewhat fur- 

 rowed, often lipped. Calyx medium or above, usually open ; lobes often leafy. 

 Basin abrupt, moderately shallow, moderately narrow to rather wide, often 

 somewhat furrowed and wrinkled. H 



Skin thick, tough, entirely covered with bright, deep, dark red or mottled 

 with red and striped with carmine over a deep yellow ground color, some- 

 times marked with broken stripes of grayish scarf-skin. Dots numerous, 

 pale, often large, areolar and conspicuous. 



Calyx tube short, conical or urn-shape with fleshy pistil point projecting 

 into the base, or approaching funnel-form. Stamens median to basal. 



Core medium, somewhat abaxile ; cells usually symmetrical and open ; core 

 lines meeting or slightly clasping. Carpels broadly roundish, slightly emargi- 



Coxe, 1817: 1 66. 



