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varieties of high, quality, the Mother in recent years is attracting 

 attention as a commercial sort. 



The tree is but a moderately vigorous grower and does best on 

 more vigorous stocks. Its behavior farther south (as recently ob- 

 served) indicates an adaptability to Appalachian conditions not pre- 

 viously recognized, so that it appears worthy of testing in all districts 

 where varieties like Baldwin and Esopus succeed, to which it is evi- 

 dently rather closely related. 



Its behavior under modern cultural methods indicates its adapta- 

 bility to conditions as widely different as those of New England, 

 eastern New York, North Carolina, western Michigan, and portions 

 of Washington. When planted commercially the fruit would 

 undoubtedly need to be handled in special trade. 



The specimen illustrated in Plate XXX was grown by Mr. J. W. 

 Van Deman, Benzonia, Mich. 



COFFMAN APPLE. 

 SYNONYMS: Knffman June, Summer Red. 



[PLATE XXXI.] 



This very promising early apple has long been grown in western 

 Tennessee, where it was propagated by "sprouts" from an old tree on 

 the farm of Mr. W. L. Coffman, inLauderdale County, as early as 1855. a 

 Though apparently not much propagated in nurseries of that section 

 it appears to have been considerably distributed throughout western 

 Tennessee, northern Alabama, and to some extent in Arkansas before 

 its formal introduction to the nursery trade by Mr. B. A. Craddock 

 about 1888. Its close resemblance to Red June (synonym, Carolina 

 Red June) gives ground for the belief that it is a seedling of that well- 

 known old sort. It was described without illustration by Heiges in 

 1895 6 and the evidence of its wide range of adaptability to southern 

 conditions accumulated since that time indicates that it is at the 

 present time one of the most promising early varieties for both home 

 use and market in the South. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Form oblong to oblong conic, often slightly oblique and tapering 

 toward base; size medium to large; cavity small to medium, deep, 

 abrupt, marked with russet; stem very short, rather stout; basin of 

 medium size, regular, deep, abrupt, marked with shallow furrows 

 and somewhat downy; calyx segments long, narrow, converging, 

 reflexed at tip; eye small, closed; surface smooth, glossy; color pale 



a Letter from Mr. B. A. Craddock, Curve, Tenn., 1895. 

 & Report of Pomologist for 1895, p. 21. 



