CLASS II. CONICAL APPLES. II. IL III. 547 



CLASS IL CONICAL APPLES. 

 ORDER II. ANGULAR. 



SECTION" 2. SOUR. 

 SUB-SECTION 3. RUSSET. 



Fort Miami. 



This is another of the seedling russets of the Maumee, 

 brought to the notice of the State Society by its Vice- 

 President, J. Austin Scott, of Toledo. Mr. Elliott de- 

 scribes it from, notes taken in 1846, when he received 

 specimens from A. SpafFord, Esq., Perrysburgh, Ohio. 



Tree upright and spreading, healthy, thrifty ; Shoots 

 dark ; not an early bearer, but productive when older. 



Fig. 178. FORT MIAMI. 



Fruit medium, roundish or oblong-conic, truncated, an- 

 gular, often unequal ; Surface rich yellow russet, often 

 bronzed ; Dots scattered, netted russeting. 



Basin medium or shallow, folded ; Eye small, closed. 



Cavity acute, wavy, green ; Stem medium. 



