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Flesh creamy yellow or greenish, very firm, hard, breaking, coarse, moder- 

 ately juicy, mild subacid becoming somewhat sweet, fair to good. 

 Season February to June. 



WABASH RED* 



REFERENCES, i. A r . Y. Sta. An. Rft., 11:223. 1892. 2. Ib., 13:170. 1894. 

 SYNONYM. Wabash Red Winter (2). 



As grown at this Station, Wabash Red is a rather attractive 

 apple of fairly good size, bright color, smooth and uniform appear- 

 ance and good dessert quality for a late-keeping apple, but rather 

 too mild in flavor for most culinary uses. It has the merit of 

 retaining its texture and flavor well till very late in the season. 

 As tested here the fruit shows a tendency to be deficient in size. 

 The tree is a good grower, is not slow in coming into bearing and 

 yields moderate to good crops nearly annually. It is sufficiently 

 promising to be worthy of further testing. 



This is distinct from Wabash or Wabash Bellflower. 



Historical. Received in 1892 and 1894 from Downing and Morris, Clinton, 

 Ind., for testing at this Station (i, 2). 



TREE. 



Tree vigorous. Form upright to roundish, rather dense. Twigs short to 

 above medium, straight or somewhat curved, stout and with large terminal 

 buds ; internodes medium to short. Bark brownish-red mingled with olive- 

 green, lightly mottled with scarf-skin ; slightly pubescent. Lenticels con- 

 spicuous, quite numerous, small to medium, roundish or a little elongated, 

 slightly raised. Buds medium to large, broad, plump, obtuse, free or nearly 

 so, slightly pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit large to medium, quite uniform in size and shape. Form roundish 

 oblate, a little inclined to conic, usually regular; sides sometimes unequal. 

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

 nate to nearly obtuse, moderately deep to deep, rather narrow to moderately 

 broad, sometimes lipped, usually russeted and with outspreading russet. 

 Calyx small to medium, closed or partly open ; lobes sometimes separated at 

 the base. Basin medium size, usually shallow and obtuse but varying to mod- 

 erately deep and somewhat abrupt, wide, somewhat furrowed and wrinkled. 



Skin moderately thick, tough, nearly smooth, bright clear yellow, in highly 

 colored specimens largely overspread with bright red or orange-red obscurely 

 striped with darker red. Dots numerous, rather conspicuous, small to medium, 

 whitish or pale yellow and russet. Prevailing effect red. 



Calyx tube cone-shape to truncate funnel-form. Stamens median. 



