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STAYMAN 



Tree: broadly vigorous, broadly diverging. 



Shoots: generally long, medium in size, nearly straight, a little curved, with 

 medium internodes. Bark: dull reddish — dark olive, sometimes with a charac- 

 teristic brownish and roughened "rust" towards the base of vigorous shoots. 

 Lenticels: few, medium in size, roundish, yellowish gray, even. 



Leaf Blade: medium in size, more or less folded, somewhat reflexed, usually 

 somewhat waved, rather broad oval, medium green. Serrations: rather sharp, 

 somewhat irregular, moderately deep, moderately distinct. Surface: rather dull, 

 rather rough, with medium pubescence having a slight brownish tinge. 



Prominent Characteristics 



Vigorous, somewhat straggly growth; rather long shoots with few lenticels; 

 leaves rather coarse and sharply serrate; one-year trees often grow in a slanting 

 direction. 

 Differs from — 



Arkansas and Paragon by somewhat more sprawling growth; brownish "rust"; 

 fewer, larger, less conspicuous, and less whitish lenticels; leaves more folded 

 with more pubescence; serrations not quite so sharp, not quite so distinct. 



Tioga by fewer weak, upcurving shoots in the head of the tree; less spreading, 

 more folded leaves with a more brownish cast and more hairy pubescence. 



Turley by less spreading, more folded, more pubescent leaves. These differ- 

 ences are small. Turley is in many ways intermediate between Arkansas and 

 Stavman. 



