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YELLOW NEWTOWN 



YORK IMPERIAL 



but are unsurpassed for culinary purposes. 

 Unfortunately, the apples are variable in size 

 and shape, and the tender skin is easily in- 

 jured, so that the variety is not profitable in 

 commercial orchards. Fruit and foliage are 



64. Yellow Bellflower. (X%) 



very susceptible to injury by the apple-scab 

 fungus. The apples do not stand storage well, 

 and deteriorate quickly when brought from low 

 temperatures. The trees are vigorous, healthy, 

 hardy, long-lived, and productive in warm, 

 well-drained, fertile soils. The variety has 

 strong local attachments, and, though widely 

 distributed, is now being planted in but few 

 localities. The most suitable regions for its 

 culture are the coast valleys of California. In 

 1817, Coxe reported that the original tree wasJ 

 still standing near Crosswicks, New Jersey. 



Tree medium to large, vigorous, upright-spreading, 

 laterals drooping. Fruit large or very large, round- 

 oblong, oblong-conic, or ovate, irregularly elliptical, 

 ribbed, often with prominent ridges at the apex, sides 

 usually unequal ; stem long, slender ; cavity large, acute, 

 deep, wide, furrowed, sometimes compressed, sometimes 

 lipped, usually with outspreading broken rays of 

 brownish-red in the sun which in highly-colored speci- 

 mens deepens to a blush ; calyx below medium to above, 

 closed or partly so ; lobes narrow, acuminate, pubescent ; 

 basin small, oblique, abrupt, narrow, shallow to rather 

 deep, distinctly ridged and wrinkled ; skin smooth, 

 bright, pale lemon-yellow varying to whitish in the 

 shade and often with a shade of brownish-red in the 

 sun which in highly-colored specimens deepens to a 

 pinkish-red blush ; dots white or russet, numerous and 

 small toward the basin, large, irregular and scattering 

 toward the cavity ; prevailing effect bright yellow ; 

 calyx-tube elongated funnel-shape, sometimes extending 

 to the core ; stamens median ; core large, long, remark- 

 ably abaxile ; cells unsymmetrical, wide open or partly 

 closed ; core-lines clasping ; carpels long, narrow, round- 

 obovate, concave, much tufted ; seeds large, long, obtuse ; 

 flesh yellow, firm, crisp, fine-grained, tender, juicy, 

 aromatic ; very good ; October to March. 



YELLOW NEWTOWN: 



town. 



See Green New- 



YELLOW TRANSPARENT. Fig. 65. 

 Yellow Transparent is more readily character- 

 ized by its faults than by its virtues. Earliness 

 is the chief asset of the variety, though, if not 

 over-ripe, the apples are very good culinary 

 fruits, and at the proper stage of maturity are 

 acceptable for dessert. The apples are above 

 medium size, and have a clear, clean yellow 

 color. The chief faults are: the fruits on old 



trees run small and uneven in size and shape; 

 the tender flesh shows bruises readily; and 

 the fruits can never be kept long nor shipped 

 far. The trees are small and lack health and 

 productiveness, but come in bearing very early 



65. Yellow Transparent. 



and are extremely hardy. The variety was 

 imported from Russia in 1870, and is now 

 grown north and south from the Atlantic to 

 the Pacific. 



Tree of medium size, vigorous, upright becoming 

 spreading, dense, with short, stout, crooked branches 

 filled with short spurs. Fruit sometimes large, uniform 

 in shape and size, round-oval, round-conic or oblate- 

 conic, ribbed, sides unequal ; stem medium to long, 

 thick ; cavity acute, medium to deep, narrow, sometimes 

 lipped, sometimes russeted ; calyx closed ; lobes medium 

 in length, broad ; basin shallow, narrow, abrupt, fur- 

 rowed and wrinkled ; skin thin, tender, smooth, waxy, 

 pale yellow changing to yellowish-white ; dots numerous, 

 light colored, often submerged ; calyx-tube conical ; 

 stamens marginal ; core medium in size ; cells partly 

 open to wide open ; core-lines clasping ; carpels broadly 

 ovate ; seeds wide, flat, obtuse ; flesh white, firm, fine- 

 grained, crisp, tender, juicy, sprightly subacid, with a 

 pleasant but not high flavor ; good ; July and August. 



YORK IMPERIAL. Fig. 66. Johnson's 

 Fine Winter. York Imperial is a popular 

 southern apple, more generally cultivated in 

 the Virginias and neighboring states, possibly, 



66. York Imperial. 



than any other variety. The apple is easily 

 recognized by its bright red color, indistinctly 

 striped with carmine, and by the shape of the 

 fruit, both ends being distinctly truncate and 

 the axis very oblique, so that the apples are 



