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burj, since it is iiuirketed late in the year. It is perhaps 

 being phmted less since cold-storage facilities have improved, 

 but 1 believe it is still worthy of a place among our list of" 

 market varieties. As a cropper it is somewhat variable, but 

 has a strong tendency to annual bearing when well cared for, 

 as it does not tend to overbear. The tree is medium to large 

 in size, and rather a vigorous grower, making usually a flat 

 top. Its princii)al weakness, so far as the writer knows it, is 

 a tenclency to European canker where that disease is common. 

 It makes a characteristic twiggy growth, being full of short 

 fruit spurs, and easily recognized by one familiar with the 

 variety. The fruit is medium to large, being rather variable 

 in both size and shape. It is sometimes oblate, sometimes 

 somewhat conic, and almost always irregular in cross-section. 

 For this reason it is not a good .variety for boxing, though 

 these objections apply less to the fruit on well-cared-for trees 

 than on those which receive less care. The flesh is yellowish 

 in color, very firm, but reasonably tender and juicy, with a 

 sprightly sub-acid flavor. In quality it would rank, in the 

 writer's opinion, as good to best. There seems to be con- 

 siderable objection to it as a commercial variety for our Amer- 

 ican markets, but I believe that this objection is going to dis- 

 appear as people become accustomed to attaching less im- 

 portance to the red skin of an apple. 



Eoxbury Russet. 



Bad i3oints : — 



1. Canker. 



2. Russets not wanted. 



Good points : — 



1. Reliable bearer. 



2. Keeps late. 



3. Good quality. 



4. "Well known. 



5. Handsome. 



(9) Palmer Greening {or Washington Royal). — This is 

 still another Massachusetts apple, having originated at Ster- 

 ling, Mass. The tree is only moderately vigorous, even when 

 young, and attains at full age only moderate size, not nearly 

 as large as the Rhode Island Greening. It comes into bear- 

 ing reasonably early, from six to seven years, bears good 

 crops biennially, but has very little fruit in the off year. The 



