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of fair, handsome fruit of excellent quality, and valuable for home 

 use and market." It is doubtful, however, whether he had fruited 

 the variety himsejf at that time. Since that date it has gradually 

 spread through the nurseries of Canada and the United States, fre- 

 quently under the names of other varieties, until within the past five 

 years its adaptability to general planting has become more generally 

 recognized. 



In addition to the vigor and hardiness of the tree, it combines the 

 important requisites of good size, beautiful color, and fine quality of 

 fruit. At the same time it is sufficiently productive to render it 

 profitable to the commercial grower. It is somewhat susceptible to 

 the attacks of the apple-scab fungus, but probably less so than any 

 other widely tested variety of the Fameuse group. The fruit keeps 

 until midwinter in the North in cellars, and, so far as tested, endures 

 excellently in refrigerated storage. The specimen shown on PI. 

 XLVII was grown in the orchard of the New York State Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Geneva, N. Y., and is fairly representative of 

 the variety as received at the Department of Agriculture from growers 

 in a wide range of territory. Excellent specimens of it have reached 

 the office of the Pomologist, in the ordinary course of correspondence, 

 from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, 

 New York, Ohio, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Montana, 

 as well as from the Province of Ontario, in Canada. As a market sort, 

 it is considered worthy of distinct recognition as a dessert apple, adapted 

 to the requirements of the fancy fruit trade in the larger cities, ranking 

 with Jonathan, Grimes, Esopus, and Northern Spy in this respect. As 

 this trade requires fruit of fine quality, free from blemishes caused by 

 diseases and insects, it is advised that planters of it be prepared to 

 spray their trees thoroughly, and to pick, pack, and handle their fruit 

 with special care in marketing. It appears to be especially adapted 

 to marketing in boxes or other small packages in retail trade. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Form roundish, sometimes slightly oblate; size medium to large; 

 surface smooth, sometimes slightty russet veined; color yellow, washed 

 over most of the fruit with light crimson, frequently dashed with 

 broken stripes of dark crimson and covered with a heavy bloom, which 

 renders the ripening fruit very conspicuous on the tree; dots russeted, 

 prominent, of variable size; cavity regular, deep, flaring, smooth; 

 stem short to medium, downy, stout, fleshy at point of attachment to 

 twig; basin regular, of medium size and depth, slightly furrowed; 

 calyx segments medium, reflexed; eye small, closed; skin thin, tough, 

 tenacious; core of medium size, roundish, clasping, open; seeds numer- 

 ous, plump, brown, of medium size; flesh white, often slightly stained 

 with light red, tender, juicy; flavor subacid, aromatic, highly esteemed 



