428 YEARBOOK OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The original tree has been dead some 18 or 20 years, having been 

 blown down during a storm. This tree was some 35 feet in height 

 and its trunk was about 2 feet in diameter. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Form oblate, ribbed; size medium to large; cavity regular, large, 

 usually with gradual slope and russet markings, sometimes lipped; 

 stem rather short, moderately stout; basin usually regular, medium 

 to large with gradual slope, furrowed, frequently knobbed ; calyx 

 segments small to medium, converging; eye medium, closed or par- 

 tially open; surface smooth, except for occasional knobs and patches 

 of russet; color yellow, overspread with red, usually indistinctly 

 striped with dark crimson; dots numerous, yellow, russet, some 

 aureole; skin rather thick, tenacious; flesh yellow, moderately fine 

 grained, breaking, juicy; core oval, clasping, small, usually closed, 

 sometimes partially open; seeds numerous, plump, of medium size, 

 brown; flavor subacid, rich; quality good to very good; season 

 from fall to midwinter. 



The Kinnard apple is of the Winesap group and is adapted to the 

 same general conditions as the Winesap, but it apparently succeeds 

 considerably farther south than that popular old sort. During recent 

 years it has shown special adaptability to the Piedmont and Blue 

 Ridge regions of Maryland, Virginia, and the South Atlantic States. 

 In the mountainous portions of northern Georgia it develops to a 

 very high degree of perfection. While it has been highly esteemed 

 for many years in central Tennessee in the region of its origin, it is 

 also succeeding well as far south as northern Louisiana and northern 

 Texas. It appears worthy of testing in the apple districts of the 

 Rocky Mountains and Pacific coast regions. In northwestern Arkan- 

 sas it has been found rather susceptible to apple scab apparently 

 more so than most varieties grown there but this failing does not 

 appear to have been reported from other sections. 



The tree is thrifty and fairly vigorous, but a rather slender grower 

 with brownish-red bark on the young wood. 



The specimen illustrated in Plate XXXIV was grown by Prof. 

 C. C. Newman, in Rabun County, Ga. 



PAYNE PEACH. 



SYNONYM : Highland Beauty. 



[PLATE XXXV.] 

 ORIGIN. 



The original tree of this variety developed in 1901 as a sprout from 

 the stock of a St. John peach tree broken off below the point of bud- 

 ding in the orchard of E. B. Payne & Sons, near Cloverdale, Barrj 

 County, Mich. 



