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Historical. The Winter Banana origi- 

 nated on the farm of David Flory, near 

 Adamsljoro, Cass county, Indiana, about 

 1876. It was introduced by Greening 

 Brothers. Monroe. Michigan, in 1890. 

 However, it has not been largely planted 

 in that state, and probabl.v is not well 

 adapted. In the Pacific Northwest it is 

 regarded as one of the most beautiful ap- 

 ples grown, but not likely to become a 

 favorite for the markets on account of 

 its susceptibility to bruises. 



TelloTT BelUlower 



The Yellow Bellflower belongs to a 

 group of apples, most of which have fruit 

 predominantly yellow. The fruit of the 

 group is characteristically oblong or 

 roundish oblong and often markedly 

 ovate or conic, with the core large and 

 abaxial. cells wide open and carpels elon- 

 gated, rather narrow and much concave. 



The group is represented by the follow- 

 ing varieties: Dickinson. Flory, Kirk- 

 land, Mason Orange, Minister, Moyer. 

 Newman, Occident, Ortley, Titus. Pippin, 

 Yellow Bellflower. 



The fruit of the Yellow Bellflower is 

 large, but is somewhat variable in size 

 so that there is often a large per cent of 

 the aiiples. especially when grown where 

 the rainfall is scarce during the growing 

 season, that do not reach marketable 



size. At the time of picking it is gener- 

 ally a greenish yellow, but as it ripens 

 it comes to be a light golden yellow. It 

 is rather acid until well ripened when it 

 is pleasant and luscious. It is tender and 

 easily bruised, yet when grown in some 

 sections, if carefully handled, it keeps 

 well, while in others it deteriorates rap- 

 idly. In California it is one of the best 

 apples when grown upon the highlands 

 or mountain sides. 



It originated in New .Jersey, and the 

 first account we have of it is in 1817, but 

 it soon came to be largely propagated in 

 all the eastern and middle states and is 

 now fairly well distributed throughout 

 the United States. 



The tree is from medium to large, vig- 

 orous, upright, with spreading branches, 

 bark dull brownish red with shades of 

 green, uniformly overlaid with moderately 

 thick scarf skin, more or less pubescent. 



Yellow »wtown 



The Yellow Newtown is one of the best, 

 if not the best, commercial yellow apples. 

 In pomological literature it is often called 

 Newtown Pippin, Yellow Newtown Pip- 

 pin and Albemarle Pippin. There is also 

 a Green Newtown, which resembles the 

 Yellow Newtown so closely in all except 

 color that it is difficult if not impossible 

 to distinguish between them in any other 



Rome Beauty. 



Yellow Newtown. 



ilaxtid Photo. 



