YORK IMPERIAL 



YORK IMPERIAL 



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lopsided an objectionable defect when the 

 fruits, fit only for culinary purposes, are to be 

 pared with a machine. The flesh is coarse and 

 the flavor not inviting to most tastes. The 

 apples keep and ship exceedingly well. These 

 qualities give the variety its chief value, 

 though the trees are very satisfactory in soils 

 and climates to which they are adapted. 

 York Imperial can be grown well only on 

 heavy fertile soils, such, usually, as have a 

 substantial foundation of clay. In the North, 

 the apples are deficient in size, color, and 

 quality. The variety takes its name from 

 York, Pennsylvania, where it originated soon 

 after the Revolutionary War. 



Tree vigorous, upright-spreading, dense. Fruit uni- 

 form in size and shape, medium to large, round-oblate, 

 usually with an oblique axis ; stem short ; cavity large, 

 acuminate, deep, broad, often gently furrowed, smooth 

 and green or partly russeted ; calyx small, closed or 

 partly open ; basin large, abrupt, deep, wide, often 

 furrowed ; skin tough, bright, smooth, yellow blushed 

 with light red and striped with carmine ; dots pale or 

 russet, conspicuous, numerous toward the eye, scattering, 

 very large and elongated toward the cavity where they 

 are often mingled with narrow, broken streaks of gray 

 scarf-skin ; calyx-tube elongated-cone-shape ; stamens 

 median ; core small, axile ; cells usually symmetrical, 

 closed or partly open ; core-lines clasping ; carpels 

 broadly round, emarginate, sometimes tufted ; seeds few, 

 dark, wide, flat, obtuse, compactly filling the cells ; 

 flesh yellow, firm, crisp, coarse, tender, juicy, sprightly 

 subacid, becoming mild subacid, aromatic ; good ; No- 

 vember to April. 



