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TREE. 



Tree moderately vigorous with long, slender branches. Form roundish to 

 spreading, open. Twigs medium in length, slender, curved; internodes rather 

 long. Bark dark brown tinged with red, streaked with searf-skin, pubescent 

 near tips. Lenticels dull, inconspicuous, scattering, medium, roundish or oval, 

 not raised. Buds medium to below medium, prominent, plump, obtuse to 

 acute, free or nearly so, slightly pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit usually medium to rather small, uniform in size and shape. Form 

 roundish oblate varying to roundish inclined to conic, often obscurely ribbed. 

 Stem often long and slender. Cavity usually acute, deep, broad, often slightly 

 furrowed, sometimes partly russeted and marked with some large, elongated, 

 irregular whitish dots and also with patches of whitish scarf-skin. Calyx 

 small, closed. Basin shallow, obtuse, furrowed, wrinkled. 



Skin thick, tough, smooth, grass-green eventually becoming tinged with 

 yellow, blushed with rather dull pinkish-red which often deepens to a distinct 

 red. Dots scattering, very large to small, russet or irregular, whitish and 

 areolar with russet point. Prevailing color green. 



Calyx tube deep, long, funnel-form. Stamens marginal. 



Core abaxile, medium in size ; cells usually symmetrical, often wide open, 

 sometimes closed ; core lines clasping. Carpels broadly roundish, emarginate, 

 mucronate, sometimes tufted. Seeds numerous, large, rather wide, long, 

 plump, acute, usually smooth. 



Flesh whitish tinged with yellow, firm, coarse, rather tough, juicy, briskly 

 subacid, fair or possibly sometimes good for culinary use. 



SCHOONMAKER 



REFERENCES, i. Elliott, 1854:156. 2. Downing, 1869:348. 3. Thomas, 1875: 

 EH- 

 SYNONYM. Schoolmocker (i, 2). 



This old variety is still grown to a limited extent in some portions of South- 

 eastern New York where it is esteemed as an apple of very good quality. 

 Elliott (i) remarks that it is probably of foreign origin and that it was grown 

 in Detroit as early as 1804. The tree is upright spreading and moderately 

 vigorous. Fruit large, roundish oblate, sometimes angular. Stem short and 

 stout. Cavity deep. Skin a little rough, yellow or greenish with bronze blush. 

 Core small. Flesh yellowish-white, crisp, briskly subacid. 



Season January to March (i, 2). 



SCOTT. 



REFERENCES, i. Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1877. (cited by 24). 2. Budd, 

 la. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1880:524. 3. Thomas, 1885:523. 4. Van Deman, U. S. 

 Pom. Rpt., 1886:271. fig. 5. Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1886-87:9, 94. 6. 

 Rural N. Y., 47:249, 646. 1888. 7. Can. Hort., 13:174, 187, 216. 1890. 8. 

 Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:249. 9. Can. Hort., 15:159. 1892. col. pi. 10. /&., 16: 

 204. 1893. 11. Heiges, U. S. Pom. Rpt., 1894:22. 12. Craig, Can. Dept. Agr. 

 Rpt., 1894:125. 13. Ont. Fr. Gr. Assn. An. Rpt., 26:16, 75. 1894. 14. Card, 



