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SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. 



corrugated and wrinkled; calyx closed; flesh juicy, acid, good for 

 culinary use. September, November. 



Whitney. (Whitney No. 20). Origin, Illinois. Popular and widely 

 planted at the West. Good for table and excellent for culinary use 

 and cider. 



Fruit large, roundish to roundish oblong, nearly regular, some- 

 times obscurely angular; clear waxen yellow, almost wholly covered 

 with lively dark red, delicately shaded, with dark crimson splashes, a 



Whitney Crab. 



handsome fruit ; dots few, minute, white, obscure; cavity wide, obtuse, 

 regular, trace of light russet; stem one inch long; basin nearly or quite 

 flat, wrinkled; calyx closed; segments erect convergent. Core 

 closed; tube funnel-shaped; cells ovate, slit; flesh yellow, tender, 

 juicy, subacid, very good. August, early September. 



Yellow Siberian. The Red Siberian and Yellow Siberian are good 

 representatives of the pure Siberian Crab (Pyrus baccata). The 

 deciduous calyx segments are marked characteristics. Trees forty 

 years old in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and other parts of the Northwest 

 demonstrate their hardiness. 



Fruit small, roundish, flattened at ends, angular, irregular; sur- 



