CLASS III. BOUND APPLES. 1. II. IIL 



629 



" Fruit largo, roundish, conic ; Skin yellow, shaded with 

 dull red and deep carmine in the sun, and thickly covered 

 with gray dots, and an appearance of rough russet on 

 most of the surface; Stalk rather short and thick, insert- 

 ed in a medium cavity, surrounded with thin russet ; Calyx 

 nearly closed ; Segments long, recurved, in a narrow, un- 

 even basin ; Flesh yellow, solid, crisp, tender, with an ex- 

 cellent, rich, sub-acid flavor, somewhat resembling Bald- 

 win; Season, January to April." Downing. 



This fruit is rarely seen in the West. It has been 

 thought by some to have originated as a sport from the 

 Baldwin. 



Rolen's Keeper. 



Received from H. N. Gillett, Lawrence County, Ohio. 

 Origin not given. 



Fruit medium, round, regular ; Surface rough, splashed 

 red on russet ; Dots scattered, small, white. 



Fig. 343. EOLEN'S KEEPER. 



Basin shallow, regular, leather-cracked; Eye small, 

 closed. 



Cavity deep, acute, regular ; Stem long, slender. 



