316 



APPLE 



APPLE 



'/ 



258. Tompkins bLins. ine nji or oblate 

 American apple, i X ' j> 



common, but they are little knowu in America, and, 

 because of eeononiioxotuiitious, are u.-^ually not profit- 

 able here. See 

 ■—^^^^ Dudrfiiiy. 



y ' s Varieties. 



. ^^«4. The v;irietics of 



/ apple trees aetu- 



/ ^ ally on sale in 



j , Xorth America in 



I ' Mw \'ear are not 



lar from 1,000 

 kinds. Kacli great 

 f;eonraplii<'al area 

 has varieties that 

 are particularly 

 adapted to it. In 

 the northern Mis- 

 sissippi Valley, 

 there are few of 



the e.<»stern-states apjiles that thrive. V'arieties have 



been introduced from Russia with the expectation that 



they will be adapted to the region; but more is to 



be expected of their progeny than of themselves. 



Varieties of local 



origin, coming from 



various stem types, || 



are now providing /^ ^X 



that region 



satisfactory apples. 



In the selectic 



varieties, one si 



be guided by this 259. The oblate and spherical forms 



adaptation to the of apple. 



region, and by the 



purpose for which the 



fruit is designed to be 



grown. Consult the rc<'- 



ommended Usts of the 



state horticultural so- 

 cieties: ask persons who 



have had experience in 



the given region; write 



to the experiment sta- 

 tion: enquire at the 



markets. The leading 



commercial varieties in 



nviding /^ X 



1 with / \ 



apples. ( I 



■tion of y / 



^should ^^^_s:=i — 



The conical and ovoid forms 

 of apple. 



Xorth America are Golden 

 Russet (N. Y.), Red Astrachan. Baldwin (Fig. 243), 

 Ben Davis fFig. 244), Blue Pearmain (Fig. 245), 

 Oldenburg (Duche.ss of), Esopus (Spitzenberg) (Fig. 

 246), Famcuse, Gano (Fig. 247), Black Gillitlower (Fig. 



248), Gravenst<'in, Cirimes 

 (Fig. 249), Ilubli.ardston 

 (Fig. 2.')0), Ralls, ,Jonathan, 

 Tompkins King, McInto.sh, 



261. Lady, a small dessert apple. (X3^2) 



Missouri (Pippin), Newtown (.Mbemarle) (Fig. 2.51), 

 Northern S])y (Fig. 252), Peek (Pleasant), Pennock, 

 Rhode Lsland Greening (Fig. 2,53), Rome Beautv (Fig. 

 254), Shoekley, Twenty Ounce, \\'ealthy (Fig. 255), 

 \\'ill(jw (Twig), Winesap and StaJ^llan Winesap (Fig. 

 25(j), Wolf River, 

 Y.>llowBellflower, 

 York Imjierial 

 (Fig. 257), King 

 (Fig. 25S). Bald- 

 win and Ben Da- 

 vis, the former of 

 secondary quahty 

 and the latter of 

 worse, hold the 

 supremacj' in 

 .American market apples. The apples of the eastern 

 and central country tend toward flattened or oblate 

 shape (Figs. 258-9). The typical form of the so-called 

 long or conical American ajiple may be seen in Fig. 260. 

 Many odd and unusual varieties are grown for dessert, 

 one of which is shown in Fig. 261. 



Monuments or markers have been erected to a few 

 of the most noted varieties of apples. Fig. 262 shows 

 the monument erected in Wihnington, near Lowell, 

 Mass., in 1895, to the Baldwin, with the following 

 inscription: 



This Pillar Erected in 1895 



BY THE 



RUMFORD HISTORICAL ASSOCLATION 



Incorporated April 28, 1S77 



Marks the estate whore in 1793 Samuel Thompson, Esq., 



while locating the line of the Middlesex Canal, discovered 



the first Pecker apple tree. Later named the 



BALDWIN 



The first tablet in New York state in memory of 

 any apple was erected in the town of Camillus, Onon- 

 daga County, on the original site of the Primate apple 

 tree (Fig. 263). John T. Roberts, Syracuse, N, Y., 

 on September 11, 1903, caused a bronze tablet to be 

 ereetetl there. On this tablet is the following 

 inscription: 



On this farm Calvin D. Bingham, about 1840, produced 

 the marvellous 



PRIMATE APPLE 



Named by Charles P. Cowles 



god's E.IRTH IS FULL OF LOVE TO M.\N 



A second marker was erected in New York in 1912 

 to the Northern Spy, Early 

 Joe and Melon apples, at 

 Bloomfield, by the Ontario 

 Countv Fruit-Growers' Society 

 (Fig. 264), with the following 

 tablet: 



262. Monument Vj 



"^ 



J.. Bjldv, 



: to the Primate apple. 



Northern Spy monument. 



(4 ft. high.) 



