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HYSLOP. 



REFERENCES, i. Warder, Tilt. Jour. Hort., 1869:206. figs. 2. Downing, 

 1869:424. 3. Fitz, 1872:147. 4. Gibb, Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1876:21. 

 5. Minn. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1876:110. 6. Barry, 1883:359. 7. Gibb, Montreal 

 Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1884:39- 8. Thomas, 1885:513. 9- Wickson, 1889:249. 

 10. Bailey, An. Hort., 1802:241. n. Munson, Me. Sta. Rpt., 1893:134. 12. 

 La. Sta. Bnl, 27 :926. 1894. 13. Can. Hort., 26 :489. 1903. figs. 14. Budd- 

 Hansen, 1903 :220. fig. 



SYNONYMS. HISLOP (i). HYSLOP (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, n, 12, 13, 14). 

 HYSLOP'S CRAB (8). 



Fruit large, very brilliantly colored, dark red or purplish over- 

 spread with thick blue bloom ; borne in clusters. The tree is 

 a good grower, very hardy, and a reliable cropper yielding good 

 crops biennially or in some cases annually. It is desirable both 

 for home use and for market. 



Historical. Origin unknown. In 1869 Downing remarked : " This variety 

 has been long and pretty extensively cultivated" (2). It is commonly 

 listed by nurserymen throughout the country (10). It is one of the best 

 known and most widely cultivated of the crabapples. 



TREE. 



Tree vigorous or moderately vigorous. Form upright spreading, rather 

 open. Twigs long, curved, slender ; internodes long. Bark olive-green, 

 tinged with reddish-brown, lightly streaked with scarf-skin; slightly pubes- 

 cent near tips. Lenticels numerous, very conspicuous, greenish-yellow, 

 medium to large, oblong. Buds exceptionally large and prominent, very 

 long, narrow, plump, acute, free, slightly pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit above medium to large, very uniform in size and shape. Form 

 roundish ovate or obovate, sometimes a little inclined to oblong, regular or 

 obscurely ribbed, symmetrical. Stem rather short to very long, slender. 

 Cavity acuminate, rather small, shallow, narrow to medium in width, some- 

 times furrowed, often slightly russeted. Calyx medium to large, closed; 

 lobes medium to long, narrow, acuminate, reflexed. Basin shallow, medium 

 to wide, distinctly furrowed and wrinkled. 



Skin clear pale yellow almost completely overspread with lively dark red 

 shading to deep carmine or purplish carmine and covered with thick, blue 

 bloom. Dots small, numerous, pale or gray. 



Calyx tube short, narrow, cone-shape to urn-shape. Stamens median. 



Core medium size, axile ; cells symmetrical, closed ; core lines meeting. 

 Carpels elongated ovate, emarginate. Seeds small, narrow, short, plump, 

 obtuse to acute, medium brown. 



Flesh yellow, sometimes with tinge of red next the skin, very firm, mod- 



