GRAVENSTEIN APPLE, 



The Gravenstein is a vigorous and healthy growing tree, attaining a 

 good size, and bearing abundant crops. 



Tkee. — ^Vigorous, upright, with a somewhat pyramidal habit, but 

 forming a large, round head ; annual shoots branching off horizontally, 

 moderately stout, curved upwards at the end. 



Wood. — Brown purplish red, sprinkled with a few whitish dots, 

 rather short-jointed, woolly at the ends ; old wood, dull brownish red; 

 buds, small, short, and flattened : Flower-buds, medium size. 



Leaves. — Large, ovate, somewhat cordate at the base, acuminate, 

 the upper surface deep glossy gTeen, little wavy, and rather sharply 

 serrated ; petioles, medium length, about an inch long, rather stout. 



Flowees. — ^Large, pale ; petals, roundish, cupped. 



Fkuit. — Large, about three inches broad, and two and a half deep : 

 Form, roundish, irregular, angular on the sides, broadest at the base 

 and narrowing to the crown, which is large, ribbed, and slightly de- 

 pressed : Skin, fair, smooth, with a greenish yellow ground, of a waxen 

 hue, distinctly streaked and pencilled with pale red, and lightly splashed 

 with crimson, deepest on the sunny side : Stem, very short, less than 

 half an inch long, moderately stout, and deeply inserted in a medium 

 sized, somewhat uneven cavity : Eye, large, open, and moderately sunk 

 in a large, open and furrowed basin ; segments of the calyx large, broad, 

 somewhat reflexed and woolly : Flesh, yellowish white, rather coarse, 

 crisp and very tender : Juice, abundant, rich, subacid, sprightly and 

 high flavored : Core, rather small, closed : Seeds, medium size. 



Ripe in September and keeps till December. 



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