APPLE VARIETY OBSERVATIONS FROM BRISTOL COUNTY 



Idared 



Monroe 



Melrose 



Excellent size and color. Bears young, annual bearer and does 

 not overset. Good keeping quality, excellent baker and good for 

 pie. Fair as fresh fruit. Tree on small side. Picks late. 



Tree like Rome but fruit superior in quality. Picks late. 

 Would plant in preference to Rome or Baldwin. 



Tends to be biennial. 

 Monroe . 



Fruit less attractive than Idared or 



Spencer 

 Spartan 



Good size, vigorous tree, picks late. 



Excellent color but small. Harvest date follows close to 

 Mcintosh. 



Bridghara 

 Delicious 



N.Y. 44416-6 



Niagara 



Puritan 



Lacks Delicious fruit shape. Tree also coarser (diameter of the 

 one year x^ood much larger than on other Delicious sports), 



Macoun X Spy. Late, large attractive fruit of excellent quality. 

 Fruit russets in Bristol County. Slow maturing tree. 



Two weeks earlier than Mcintosh. Fruit large and attractive 

 but quality only fair. Would plant in preference to Milton. 



Two pickings about mid-August. Fruit large, often irregular, 

 attractive. Too acid for fresh fruit. Soft if picked too ripe. 



Mass. A 11* 



Transparent X Cortland. Trial samples distributed same time 

 as Puritan. Should not be discarded. Better than Wealthy, 

 Gravenstein or Duchess as a cooker. Bears young, alternately 

 light and heavy. Fruit large, smooth, attractive if allowed 

 to mature. 



*Editor's Note - Mass, A 11 was one of several seedlings developed at University 

 of Massachusetts, It was discarded in preference to Puritan. 



---Harold 0. Woodward 



County Extension Agent 

 Bristol County 



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THE MEXICAN STPvAIJBERRY INDUSTRY 



It will probably surprise you, as it did me, to learn that Mexico not only 

 has a strawberry industry but exports a considerable amount of berries to the 

 United States. 



