LITTLE-KNOWN FRUIT VARIETIES. 3 S3 



DESCRIPTION. 



Form roundish conical: size medium; surface smooth, pale yellow, 

 washed with red. splashed and striped with crimson and overspread 

 with gmy toward the base, often covered with thin lilac bloom: dots 

 irray. some with dark centers and often slightly indented toward apex; 

 cavity regular, of medium size and depth and gradual slope, distinctly 

 >triped: stein rather short and stout: basin of medium size and slope 

 and depth, slightly leather-cracked: calyx segments medium, reflexed 

 at tip. eye closed or partially open, skin thick, tough, tenacious: core 

 oval, of medium size, nearly closed, meeting the eye: seeds numer- 

 ous, of medium size, angular, brown: flesh yellowish, tine grained. 

 hard until fully ripe, then tender and juicy: flavor subacid: quality 

 good to very good: season April to June in cellar storage in Missouri, 

 but has been kept two years in this way. 



The tree i> an upright grower, hardy, blooming late, bearing regu- 

 lar, large crops. Its only defect appears to be its tendency to over- 

 bear, thus reducing the size of the fruit. 



This variety is considered worthy of systematic testing throughout 

 the South, especially in the mountain regions, where its parent. " Rails." 

 i> 'ne of the most reliable of the long-keeping apples, both for home 



3 and for market. 



M'INTOSH APPLE. 

 (SYNONYM: Mclntofh Bed,) 



[PLATE XLVIL] 



Among the winter apples of Northern origin that are as yet but 

 little known to commercial growers, perhaps none shows a wider 

 adaptability to diverse conditions or gives larger promise of success in 

 the representative apple-growing regions than the Melntosh. Unlike 

 many of the recently introduced varieties, it has not been widely 

 advertised nor pushed by nurserymen, but it has steadily made its way 

 through its intrinsic merit, and is now grown, to a limited extent, in 

 many Statos. The original tree of this varietv was discovered and 

 saved, with several other seedlings of about 10 or 15 years old. by 

 the late John Mclntosh. in clearing away second-growth timber for 

 a building place on his farm in Matilda Township, in the present 

 village of Dundela, Ontario. Canada, about 1798. This original tree, 

 though seriously injured by the burning of the homestead near it 

 some years ago. Ls still standing, and is, therefore, more than a cen- 

 tury old. The variety was not propagated in a nursery until 1 s 7. 

 when the son of the discoverer began its propagation in his nursery. 

 It does not appear to have reached the United States until after 1 ^ ~ 



Charles Downing described it under the name "Mclutosh Red." 

 in the second appendix to the second revised edition of "Fruits and 

 fruit trees of America," published in - 9 u a good, annual bearer 



