DESCRIPTION OF APPLE VARIETIES 



Bark: 



Color toward base of current season's growth 

 Color on wood two years old or older 



Lenticels: 

 Number 

 Size 

 Shape 

 Color 

 Raised or even with surface 



Leaf Blade: 

 Size 



Folding of blade 



Bending of midrib (straight or reflexed) 

 Waving of leaf edge 

 Shape 

 Color 

 Angle with branch 



Serrations: 

 Sharpness 

 Size 



Regularity 

 Depth and distinctness 



Surface: 



Light reflection (shining or dull) 

 Texture (rough or smooth) 

 Pubescence 



The Tree: Vigor is an indication of the size of the tree, and, like all other 

 characteristics, is to be interpreted in comparison with other varieties growing 

 at the same time and under similar conditions. Form applies only to trees two 

 years old or older and alludes to the position and appearance of the main branches 

 growing out from the trunk. The angle of the branch with the trunk varies from 

 spreading through diverging and ascending to upright, the last term describing 

 the most acute angle. Rows of upright trees are very narrow. If the branches 

 curve upward, the tree is described as upcurving. In some varieties the angle of 

 the main branches is more or less irregular; some spreading and others more or 

 less diverging or even ascending. 



The Branches or Shoots. The shoots may be long or short, slender or stout, 

 according to the variety. Their growth may be straight or zigzag, that is, chang- 

 ing direction slightly at each bud. The curvature of the shoots is correlated with 

 the form of the tree — if the branches are much curved, the form of the tree is 

 upcurving. The internodes, which are the spaces between buds, may be short 

 or long, differing with the variety-. 



I^The Bark; Near the growing tip, the bark is always some shade of green; 

 toward the base, it takes on, with increasing age, some form of reddish or olive. 

 The bark on wood two years old or older is some shade of green or olive, some- 

 times with a more or less reddish tinge. 



