CRAB-APPLES. 



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flesh creamy yellow, crisp, acid, somewhat astringent, changing when 

 fully ripe to a pleasant agreeable subacid. August, September. 



Transcendent Crab. 



Van Wyck. A chance seedling on the farm of Miss Caroline Van 

 Wyck, Fishkill, Dutchess County, New York. Tree vigorous, up- 

 right, productive. 



Fruit large, roundish, slightly conic; surface smooth, whitish, 

 shaded and mottled with light bright red, and covered with a thin 

 bloom; stem rather long, slender; cavity rather narrow, deep; calyx 

 closed; basin medium, smooth. Core small and closed; flesh whitish, 

 fine, rather firm, moderately juicy, rather rich, honeyed sweet, good. 

 September. (Downing.) 



Virginia. Found about forty years ago mixed among trees of the 

 old Hewes Virginia by N. K. Fluke, Davenport, Iowa. In Iowa and 

 Wisconsin the Virginia has been found very hardy and desirable as a 

 stock for top-grafting owing to its wide-spreading top and vigorous 

 growth. 



Fruit medium, roundish, flattened, regular; surface yellow, 

 thinly covered with red, sometimes nearly solid red; cavity obtuse, 

 regular, slightly russeted; stem long; basin nearly or quite flat, 



