So STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



serted in a narrow, smooth cavity. Flesh yellowish white, firm 

 crisp, with a pleasant, mild subacid flavor. Good, January to 

 May." 



Thomas's American Fruit Culturist gives the same name, and 

 almost identical description. The habit of growth of tree is the 

 same. In regard to keeping it adds: "Keeps through the spring, 

 and often through summer for twelve months." 



Barry in Fruit Garden gives same name and identical 

 description, and adds: "Tree is remarkably stout and erect, 

 bears large crops, and the fruit will keep a year." None of them 

 figure the fruit but Downing. 



It is seen that these authors all agree as to the form of growth 

 of the tree, and the long keeping of the fruit. At St. John last 

 fall I found a barrel of this variety a year old on exhibition at 

 a fruit store, and in a sound and well preserved condition. 



A striking feature in identifying this variety is the growth of 

 the tree. It will also be observed that the fruit is generally only 

 partially covered with russet. The color, also, is only a green- 

 ish yellow, while the flesh is greenish white or only tinted with 

 yellow, but never of a rich golden color like some other of this 

 class of apples. "The stout, thick limbs and branches of the 

 trees are filled with spurs which are stuck full of fruit clear to 

 their junction with the trunk, which renders it an enormous 

 producer. This peculiarity is not found with any other variety 

 with which I am acquainted, and is enough of itself alone by 

 which to identify the variety. 



An apple has been grown under the name of English Russet 

 to a considerable extent in western Penobscot county and was 

 also frequently found a few years ago in Waldo county. In the 

 early years of our society this apple usually put in its appearance 

 at our exhibitions, where I became familiar with it. It is 

 emphatically distinct from the English Russet of the books 

 described above. 



This apple is medium in size, slightly conical; color green 

 ground splashed with russet, mostly covered around the stem 

 end, and with bronze cheek in the sun; flavor a rasping sour, 

 early in season, tempering down to some extent later on, but 

 never rich or high flavored; flesh greenish white. Especially 

 hable to wither after being stored. • The shape of the apple 



