CLASS III. BOUND APPLES. 1. II. II. 619 



"Willow. 



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WILLOW TWIG JAMES RIVER, ETC. 



This Virginia fruit has obtained a wide spread notoriety 

 as a valuable market apple throughout the West. 



Tree very vigorous, healthy, productive, branching, 

 twiggy, thorny while young ; Shoots slender, olive brown. 



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Fig. 236. WILLOW. 



Fruit globular, truncated, looking oblong from its cyl- 

 indrical sides ; Surface smooth, dull greenish-yellow, mar- 

 bled and striped dull red ; Dots minute, gray. 



Basin wide, abrupt, plaited ; Eye medium, closed. 



Cavity wide or acute, regular ; Stem long, slender, in- 

 clined. 



Core medium, round, regular, closed, meeting, not clasp- 

 ing the eye ; Seeds numerous, plump, brown ; Flesh green- 



