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unequal. Stem short to medium, thick. Cavity usually rather large, acumi- 

 nate, moderately wide to wide, deep> often compressed, greenish or russet 

 -with outspreading russet rays. Calyx large, open; lobes short, rather broad, 

 nearly obtuse. Basin large to very large, usually symmetrical, deep, moder- 

 ately wide to wide, very abrupt, sometimes broadly and irregularly furrowed 

 and wrinkled. 



Skin rather thick, tough, smooth, greenish or yellow washed, mottled and 

 striped with two shades of red becoming solid dark red on the exposed 

 cheek, overspread with thin bloom and often marked with thin scarf-skin 

 about the base. Dots minute and russet or large and pale gray. Prevailing 

 effect attractive red with less of a striped appearance than Alexander. 



Calyx tube wide, broadly conical to somewhat funnel-form. Stamens 

 basal. 



Core medium to rather small, axile to somewhat abaxile ; cells closed or 

 sometimes open ; core lines meeting or slightly clasping. Carpels flat, 

 broadly ovate to nearly cordate, tufted. Seeds few, often abortive, medium 

 size, rather wide, short, plump, obtuse to acute, medium brown. 



Flesh nearly white, moderately firm, coarse, rather tender, juicy, subacid, 

 sprightly, fair to good or nearly good. 



Season October to early winter. 



BLACK ANNETTE, 



REFERENCES, i. Elliott, 1854:167. 2. ? Warder, 1867713. 3. Downing, 

 1869 :99. 



SYNONYMS. None. 



A rather small dark red apple formerly grown to a limited extent in some 

 sections of New York and other Eastern states. Season November and De- 

 cember. It is now practically obsolete here. The Black Annette mentioned 

 by Hansen when grown in Central Iowa keeps through the winter which 

 indicates that it is distinct from the variety here described. See Vol. I. 



BLENHEIM. 



REFERENCES, i. Turner, London Hort. Soc. Trans., 3:322. 1819. 2. For- 

 syth, 1824:134. 3. Pom. Mag., i :No. 28. 1828. col. pi. 4. Ronalds, 1831:61. 

 fig. 5. London Hort. Soc. Cat., 1831 :No. 104. 6. Kenrick, 1832:72. 7. Floy- 

 Lindley, 1833:29. 8. Downing, 1845:81. 9. Horticulturist, 1:389. 1847. 

 10. Thomas, 1849:144. u. Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 3:29. 1851. 12. El- 

 liott, 1854:167. 13. Hooper, 1857:19. 14. Lucas, Ed., ///. Handb. Obstk., 

 1:515. 1859. 15. Warder, 1867:713. 16. Regel, 1:461. 1868. 17. Berghuis, 

 1868 :No. 61. col. pi. 18. Tilt. Jour. Hort., 7:166. 1870. 19. Downing, 

 1872:3 app. 20. Leroy, 1873:139. fig. 21. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1875:6. 

 22. Lauche, 1882 :No. 36. col. pi. 23. Bensel, Rural N. Y., 42:65. 1883. 

 24. Hogg, 1884:24. 25. Lyon, Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1890:288. 26. Can. 

 Hort., 15:40, 72, in, 124, 156, 188, 206. .1892. 27. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892: 

 235. 28. Can. Hort., 16:113, 299. 1893. 29. Bredsted, 2 :i57. 1893. 30. Ont. 

 Fr. Stas. An. Rpt., 1:24. 1894. 31. Gaucher, 1894 :No. 8. col. pi. 32. Card, 

 and For., 9:15. 1896. 33. Bunyard, Jour. Roy. Hort. Soc., 1898:354. 34. 



