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or partly open; lobes variable; medium to rather large and long; sometimes 

 short, obtuse or acute. Basin variable, usually medium in width and depth, 

 varying from narrow to rather wide, and from obtuse to abrupt, furrowed and 

 often slightly wrinkled. 



Skin tough or moderately tender, sometimes almost smooth, but usually 

 largely covered with greenish to yellowish-brown russet. Highly colored 

 specimens develop a bronze blush which rarely deepens to red. Dots russet 

 or gray. 



Calyx tube rather large, moderately wide, with fleshy pistil point projecting 

 into the base, usually conical, sometimes funnel-shape. Stamens basal to 

 median. 



Core above medium to small, axile; cells usually symmetrical, closed, rarely 

 partly open ; core lines meeting if the calyx tube is conical but clasping if it 

 is funnel-shape. Carpels rather flat, elongated and narrowing toward the 

 apex, or roundish ovate, sometimes slightly emarginate, mucronate, tufted. 

 Seeds few, often abortive, medium or above, long, plump, acute, tufted. 



Flesh tinged with yellow or greenish, firm, somewhat coarse, moderately 

 tender, breaking, juicy, sprightly subacid, good to very good. 



Season December to May or in cold storage to July (42). 



ROXBURY COMPARED WITH GOLDEN RUSSET. 

 As compared with the Golden Russet the Roxbury tree is larger, 

 more spreading and more productive. The dots on the shoots of 

 the Golden Russet are more conspicuous and more numerous than 

 on the Roxbury. The fruit of Roxbury is larger, more oblate and 

 it may be characteristically elliptical as shown in the accompanying 

 half-tone plate ; that of the Golden Russet is less variable in color 

 and more uniform in size and shape. The Roxbury stem is thicker 

 than that of Golden Russet, often tinged with red on one side and 

 often swollen. The stem of the Golden Russet is usually shorter, 

 not swollen and not tinged with red. The cavity of Roxbury is 

 more often furrowed ; that of the Golden Russet more often green 

 and marked with greenish-gray dots. The flesh of the Golden 

 Russet is more sprightly subacid, finer-grained and of richer flavor, 

 that of the Roxbury being rather coarser, yellower, and more mildly 

 subacid. The seeds of the Golden Russet are shorter than those of 

 Roxbury and not so dark colored. 



RUSSIAN BALDWIN, 



REFERENCES, i. Hoskins, Rural N. Y., 53:573. 1894. 2. Can. Hort., 18:222, 

 266. 1895 3- Heiges, U. S. Pom. Rpt., 1895:32. 4. Can. Hort., 20:242. 1897. 

 5. Budd-Hansen, 1903:170. 



