THE APPLE. 421 



YORKSHIRE GREENING. 

 Coate's. Yorkshire Goose Sauce. 



An English culinary Apple. Tree very vigorous and productive. 



Fruit large, oblate, slightly ribbed, greenish, with shades and stripes 

 of dull red, specks and traces of russet. Flesh greenish white, firm, 

 crisp, brisk subacid. Good. October, November. 



YOST. 



A native of Berks Co., Pa. Tree large and spreading. 



Fruit oblate, very much flattened, yellow, striped and shaded with 

 crimson, thinly dotted with brown. Stalk short. Cavity slightly rus- 

 seted. Calyx partially closed. Flesh yellowish, rather coarse, tender, 

 juicy, pleasant subacid. Good. December, January. 



ZANE. 

 Zane Greening. 



Origin, Virginia. 



Fruit large, roundish, dull greenish yellow. Flesh greenish white, 

 tender, soft. Poor. February to June. (Elliott.) 



ZIEBER. 



Origin, Beading, Pa. 



Fruit below medium, roundish, yellow, with a striped red cheek. 

 Flesh dry, pleasant, hardly good. 



ZOAR GREENING. 



Origin, Ohio. . 



Fruit large, roundish conic, greenish, faintly shaded with dull red in 

 the sun. Flesh white, tender, moderately juicy, pleasant subacid. Good. 

 Core small. November, December. 



SIBERIAN CRABS AND IMPROVED SIBERIAN 



APPLES. 



THE varieties of Siberian Crab Apples (Pyrus baccata) have, here- 

 tofore, been mainly valued for their handsome flowers and the beautiful 

 appearance of the tree when loaded with fruit. 



Within the past year or two, however, considerable attention has 

 been given to their cultivation by fruit-growers in our Western and 

 Northwestern States, because of the superior hardihood of the trees. 

 Large numbers of seedlings have been grown, some bearing full evidence 

 of the paternity of the Pyrus baccata, others possessing more or less 

 of the Pyrus malus, apparent more in the flesh and improved quality 

 of the fruit, than in the habit of the trees. They are all valuable for 

 cider, preserves, and cooking, and some of the improved varieties, more 



