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Flesh tinged with yellow, moderately firm, a little coarse, moderately crisp, 

 rather tender, juicy, mild subacid becoming sweet, aromatic, good or some- 

 times very good. 



TOLMAN SWEET. 



REFERENCES, i. Thacher, 1822:139. 2. Buel, N. Y. Bd. Agr. Mem., 1826: 

 476. 3. Manning, Mag. Hort., 7:50. 1841. 4. Downing, 1845:137. 5. Phoenix, 

 Horticulturist, 1:361. 1846. 6. Thomas, 1849:162. 7. Hovey, Mag. Hort., 15: 

 162. 1849. fig. 8. Cole, 1849:131. fig. g. Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 3:87. 

 1851. fig. 10. Elliott, 1854:110. fig. ii. Gregg, 1857:60. fig. 12. Hooper, 

 J 857:93. 13. Horticulturist, 17:150, 167. 1862. 14. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1862. 

 15. Warder, 1867:557. fig. 16. Barry, 1883:355. 17. Lyon, Mich. Hort. Soc. 

 Rpt., 1890:298. 18. Manning, Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1891:137. 19. Taylor, Me. 

 Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1892:57. 20. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:251. 21. Woolverton, 

 Ont. Fr. Assn. An. Rpt., 26:169. 1894. 22 - Can. Hort., 17:229, 280. 1894. col- 

 pi. 23. Hoskins, Rural N. Y., 53:310. 1894. 2 4- Ahvood, Va. Sta. Bui., 130: 

 125. 1901. 25. Waugh, Vt. Sta. An. Rpt., 14:311. 1901. 26. Hansen, 5". D. 

 Sta. Bui., 76:106. 1902. fig. 27. Budd-Hansen, 1903:189. fig. 28. Powell and 

 Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui., 48:58. 1903. 29. Beach and Clark, N. Y. Sta. 

 Bnl., 248:146. 1904. 



SYNONYMS. Brown's Golden Sweet (10). TALLMAN'S SWEET (15). TALL- 

 MAN SWEET (26). Tollman Sweet (27). TALLMAN SWEETING (2, 6, 11). 

 Tollman's Sweeting (10). TALMAN SWEET (5, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23). TALMAN'S 

 SWEET (14, 16, 19). Talman Siveet (28). TALMAN SWEETING (8). TALMAN'S 

 SWEETING (9, 10, 12). TOLMAN (25, 28). TOLMAN SWEET (3, 13, 18, 24). 

 Tolman Sweet (25, 28). TOLMAN'S SWEETING (4, 7). TOLMAN SWEETING (i). 

 Tolman's Sweeting (6, 10). 



Fruit medium or below, rather attractive for a yellow apple. It 

 meets with little demand in the general market, but is sold to a 

 limited extent in special markets and to special classes of trade. 

 The fruit is generally much esteemed for certain culinary purposes 

 as pickling, boiling and baking. Its keeping quality varies in 

 different seasons. In ordinary storage it is in season from Novem- 

 ber to January with December as the commercial limit. In cold 

 storage its commercial limit varies under different conditions from 

 February i to April (29). Some find that it stands heat well before 

 going into storage ; others report that it does not. It shows bruises 

 very readily and requires careful handling. The fruit hangs pretty 

 well to the tree, is quite uniform in grade and suffers comparatively 

 little loss in drops and culls. The tree is a good grower, long-lived 

 and very hardy. Throughout Northern New York, Northern New 

 England, certain portions of Canada and the northern portion of 

 the apple belt in the prairie region of the Middle West, Tolman 



