I2O THE APPLES OF NEW YORK. 



Flesh nearly white, very tender, crisp, rather fine-grained, mild subacid, 

 agreeable in flavor, good to very good for dessert. 



Season mid-October to January (8, 9) Some of the fruit keeps appar- 

 ently sound till March or later but after January it loses in quality. 



LATE STRAWBERRY. 



REFERENCES, i. Thomas, Cultivator, 5:246. 1848. 2. Thomas, 1849:150. 

 fig. 3. Cole, 1849:111. 4. Waring, 1851:21. 5. Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 

 3:27. 1851. fig. 6. Barry, 1851:282. 7. Elliott, 1854:65. 8. Downing, 

 1857:163. 9. Hooper, 1857:54. 10. Gregg, 1857:41. n. Am. Pom. Soc. 

 Cat., 1862. 12. Warder, 1867:540. 13. Downing, 1869:250. fig. 14. Todd, 

 1871 :i54. fig. 15. la. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1879:538. 16. Roach, Montreal Hort. 

 Soc. Rpt., 1886-7:27. 17. Wickson, 1889:245. 18. Lyon, Mich. Hort. Soc. 

 Rpt., 1890:294. 19. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:243. 20. Burrill and McCluer, 

 ///. Sta. Bui., 45:329. 1896. 21. Badd-Hansen, 1903:113. fig. 



SYNONYMS. AUTUMN STRAWBERRY (i, 4, 6, 7, 10, 14, 15). Autumn Straw- 

 berry (2, 5, 8, 12, 13, 17, 21). FALL STRAWBERRY (3). LATE STRAWBERRY (2, 

 5, 8, 9, n, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 ). Late Strawberry (i, 3, 6, 7). Straw- 

 berry (2,7). 



Different varieties have been called Late Strawberry but the name 

 is now almost exclusively applied to the variety described below. 

 This is an attractive apple, pale yellow overspread or striped and 

 splashed with light and dark red, very good in quality especially 

 for dessert use. Many esteem it one of the best dessert apples of 

 its season. It comes into use in September and ripens in succession 

 during a period of several weeks continuing in season till December. 

 While this habit of successive ripening makes the variety more 

 desirable for the home orchard it renders it less valuable for com- 

 mercial purposes, since several pickings are required to secure the 

 crop in prime condition. The fruit is hardly as large as is desir- 

 able for a good market variety but its attractive appearance and 

 excellent quality render it suitable for local and fancy trade. The 

 tree is medium to rather large, vigorous ; form upright spreading 

 to roundish. It is hardy, healthy, long-lived and a regular cropper- 

 yielding moderate to heavy crops biennially or nearly annually. 



Historical Late Strawberry originated at Aurora, Cayuga county, N. Y. 

 (13). In 1848 Thomas described it as a new and newly introduced apple (i). 



FRUIT. 



Fruit below medium to above, uniform in size and fairly uniform in shape. 

 Form roundish to slightly oblong conic, sometimes quite strongly ribbed, 



