CLASS I. FLAT APPLES. 1. II. II. 455 



the progress of emigration from the Keystone State, 

 though its admirers are not confined to that class of our 

 population. It is a fall and early winter fruit, and some 

 pomologists on the southern borders of its culture object 

 to it that it .will not keep long, and that it soon becomes 

 dry and mealy when put away. When grown further 

 north it is smaller, but more solid, t and remains juicy un- 

 til spring. It should be gathered early, even before it is 

 well colored, and kept cool to make it retain its flavor and 

 juiciness. 



Tree upright, very thrifty, very productive ; shoots 

 dark, foliage large, light green, and thus the variety may 



Fig. 108. RAMBO. 



easily be distinguished in the orchard. !NTot very hardy ; 

 Avhole nurseries and orchards were destroyed, in 1856, 

 throughout the Northwest. 



Fruit medium to small, when crowded upon the limbs 

 as they generally are upon old trees, regular, oblate, or 

 roundish-oblate, but sometimes unequal when overgrown ; 

 large specimens are flattened at the ends so as to appear 

 Surface striped and splashed scarlet on green* 



