462 DESCRIPTIONS OF APPLES. 



not agreeable ; Quality poor ; Use kitchen only ; Season 

 November to January. There are many better apples of 

 its season. 



Vance's Harvest. 



A pretty little early apple grown in some parts of the 

 West. Origin unknown. 



Fruit small, flat, regular ; Surface smooth, rich yellow, 

 shaded and splashed bright red ; Dots small, scattered, 

 yellow. 



Basin small, regular; Eye small, closed. 



Cavity wide, regular, brown ; Stem long. 



Core wide, regular, meeting the eye ; Seeds numerous, 

 short, plump, dark ; Flesh yellow, firm, breaking, not very 

 juicy ; Flavor acid to sub-acid ; Quality pretty good ; Use 

 kitchen and market ; Season August. 



Vandervere Pippin. 



LARGE VANDEBVEBE WATSON'S VANDEBVERE VANDERVERE (Elliott) 



YELLOW VANDEBVERE and several others in the books. 



There appears to have been much confusion in the minds 

 of authors who have written of this fruit, which, in some 

 parts of the country is very well known and much culti- 

 vated. I have taken the name by which it is almost uni- 

 versally recognized by cultivators, though it is adopted 

 only as a synonym by Mr. Elliott, who seems to have 

 confounded this apple with the Pennsylvania Vandervere 

 or Staalcubs described by Coxe. 



Origin believed to have been Pennsylvania, but this is 

 not well established. 



Tree very vigorous, large, spreading, productive, bear- 

 ing annually ; Twigs and leaves much like the Pennsylva- 

 nia Vandervere. 



Fruit large to very large, regular, oblate; surface smooth, 

 yellow, more or less covered with marbled red, and scarlet 

 stripes ; Dots large, yellow, indented, sometimes irregu- 

 larly net-veined, making it less smooth. 



Basin wide, regular ; Eye small, closed. 



Cavity wide , regular ; Stem long, medium size. 



Core regular, closed, meeting and clasping the eye ; 

 Seeds numerous, dark ; Flesh yellow, firm, breaking, gran- 



