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plump, obtuse, free or nearly so, much pubescent ; the shoulder of the bud is 

 flattened so that it bulges slightly on the sides. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit above medium, cften large, fairly uniform in size but not in shape. 

 Form roundish oblate, sometimes approaching roundish ovate, characteristically 

 rounded toward the cavity, ribbed, more or less irregularly elliptical. Stem 

 usually short, often fleshy and often inserted under a lip. Cavity varies from 

 moderately large to small, sometimes being scarcely at all developed, narrow 

 to wide, very shallow to moderately deep, often furrowed and sometimes 

 thinly russeted. It is acuminate at the insertion of the stem but the outer 

 portion is often moderately obtuse. Calyx below medium to large, partly 

 open or sometimes closed. Basin medium in depth and width, usually some- 

 what abrupt, wrinkled. 



Skin smooth, moderately thin, rather tough, grass-green becoming yellow 

 washed and mottled with orange-red or red, striped and splashed with car- 

 mine, often covered with bloom. Dots moderately conspicuous, pale gray or 

 whitish, some being large, obscurely defined and areolar. 



Calyx tube funnel-form varying to cone-shape. Stamens median to basal. 



Core below medium to large, axile to somewhat abaxile; cells irregularly 

 developed, usually closed or slit ; core lines clasp the funnel cylinder. Carpels 

 obcordate, tufted. Seeds numerous, medium to large, rather long, moderately 

 narrow, acute, plump, tufted, light brown. 



Flesh nearly white, moderately firm, slightly coarse, rather tender, very 

 juicy, subacid, slightly aromatic, fair to good. 



Season variable; commonly November to April in Northern and Western 

 New York. 



PICKARD RESERVE, 



REFERENCES, i. Mo. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1863. (cited by 9). 2. Warder, 1867: 

 413- fig 3- Downing, 1869:304. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1873. 5- Bailey, An. 

 Hort., 1892:246. 6. Burrill and McCluer, ///. Sta. Bui, 45:335- 1896. 7. 

 Thomas, 1897:648. 8. Sharpe, Can. Dcpt. Agr. Rpt., 1901:543. 9. Ragan, 

 U. S. B. P. I. Bui., 56:232. 1905. 



SYNONYMS. PICARD (7). Picard's Reserve (7). PICKARD (4). Pickard's 

 Reserve (9). 



A large, green or yellow fruit with reddish-bronze cheek which in highly 

 colored specimens becomes in part pinkish-red. It is evidently allied to the 

 Green Newtown group of apples. This is indicated by the elliptical form, 

 occasional oblique axis, truncate base, the color and markings of the skin, 

 particularly the outspreading russet rays about the cavity, the gray dots and 

 the brownish-pink blush ; also by the texture, aroma and quality of the flesh. 

 Although inferior to Green Newtown in aroma and quality it is excellent in 

 both. It does not appear to show any marked resemblance to the group which 

 includes Ortley and Yellow Bellflower and it is strikingly different from this 

 group in its core characters. 



As fruited at this Station the tree has not come into bearing very young 

 but with advancing maturity has proved a reliable bearer giving full crops in 

 alternate years. So far as we can learn it has not been sufficiently tested in 



