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dium size, vigorous or moderately vigorous, very hardy, healthy, comes into 

 bearing young and is very productive. It is generally superseded in market 

 by larger varieties. 



MARENGO. 



REFERENCES, i. Elliott, Horticulturist, 23:136. 1868. fig. 2. Warder, 

 Tilt. Jour. Hort., 5:207. 1869. fig. 3. Downing, 1869:425. 4. Horticul- 

 turist, 26:371. 1871. 5. ///. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1877:112. 6. Ib., 1879:196. 

 7. Barry, 1883:360. 8. Montreal Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1884:37. 9. Thomas, 

 1885:226, 517. 10. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:244. n. Me. Sta. Rpt., 1893:134. 

 12. Budd-Hansen, 1903 :222. 



SYNONYMS. MARENGO (5, 6). MARENGO CRAB (3, 7, 9, 10, IT, 12). 

 MARENGO No. i (2, 8). MARENGO WINTER CRAB (i, 4). Marengo Winter 

 Crab (2). 



Originated at Marengo, 111. (3, 6). This is a good variety for home use 

 where a late-keeping crabapple is desired, and some have found it a profit- 

 able market variety but other varieties of its season which are more attractive 

 in color are generally preferred for commercial purposes. The tree is of 

 medium size, vigorous, spreading, very hardy, long-lived and a reliable 

 cropper usually yielding heavy crops annually. The limbs are very tough 

 and support heavy loads well. The fruit hangs well to the tree till very 

 late in the season. It agrees well with the following description given by 

 Warder (2) : " Fruit globular, truncate, regular, or slightly flattened on 

 the sides, one of the largest of its class ; surface smooth, yellow, blushed 

 or covered with crimson ; dots minute ; basin shallow, folded ; eye small, 

 closed; cavity medium, regular; stem long; core large, closed, meeting the 

 eye; seeds few, small, plump, light brown; flesh yellow, firm, rather juicy; 

 flavor subacid, aromatic. Use, kitchen and dessert; quality, good; season, 

 winter, and till spring in the North." 



MARTHA, 



REFERENCES, i. ? la. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1879:452. 2. Ib., 1880:68. 3. Rural 

 N. Y., 45:284. 1886. figs. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1887:134. 5. Bailey, 

 An. Hort., 1892:244. 6. Thomas, 1897:299. 7. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 

 1897:11. 8. Budd-Hansen, 1903:222. 9. Rural N. Y., 62:235. 1903. 10. 

 Farrand, Mich. Sta. Bui., 205:47. 1903. 



SYNONYMS. None. 



Fruit large, very handsome clear yellow more or less overspread 

 with bright red ; excellent in flavor and quality ; one of the very 

 best of its class for all culinary purposes. The tree is of medium 

 size, moderately vigorous, roundish or spreading, very hardy, 

 comes into bearing young, and is a reliable cropper, yielding good 

 to heavy crops annually or nearly annually. The fruit hangs well 

 to the tree, is uniform, reliable, and satisfactory in appearance and 



