1914 



FHUITS OF ONTARIO. 



BENONl. 



A summer apple little grown in Ontario, and not highly esteemed for commercial 

 purposes. 



ORIGIN : Massachusetts. 



TREE: spreading, fairly vigorous; hardy; fairly productive. A biennial bearer. 



FRUIT: size scarcely medium; form oblate conical; skin rich yellow, blushed with red 

 in the sun with a few scattered bright dots; stem half an inch long in a deep cavity; 

 calyx erect, partly closed in a deep basin. 



FLESH: color yellow; texture tender and juicy; flavor rich subacid. 



QUALITY: dessert very good; cooking good. 



VALUE: market second class. 



SEASON: August and September. 



BIETIGHEIMER. 



A fall apple remarkable only for its great size and beauty. The fruit drops badly. 



ORIGIN: Germany. 



TREE: habit vigorous, spreading; an abundant biennial bearer; hardy. 



FRUIT: size very large, sometimes immense; form round, oblate; skin whitish yellow 

 almost covered with pale red, and having a few obscure stripes and splashes, and 

 numerous whitish dots; stem very short, in a wide, regular shallow cavity; calyx closed 

 in a narrow slightly corrugated basin. 



FLESH: white; texture firm, juicy; flavor brisk, subacid. 



QUALITY: poor for dessert; fair for cooking. 



VALUE: home and foreign market second class 



SEASON: September and October. 



BLENHEIM. 



BLENHEIM. (Blenheim Orange, Blenheim Pippin.) 



An apple that is 

 constantly gain- 

 ing in favor with 

 both grower and 

 consumer, because 

 of its size, its 

 beauty, its even- 

 ness of form and 

 general excellence 

 for cooking and 

 dessert purposes. 

 It is grown in the 

 counties of Prince 

 Edward, Victoria, 

 Lincoln and else- 

 where, and is 

 highly valued as a 

 commercial apple. 

 It certainly de- 

 serves to be more 

 generally planted. 

 ORIGIN : a gar- 

 den in Woodstock, 

 England, near the 

 residence of the 

 Duke of Marl- 

 boro'; shown at a 

 meeting of the 

 London Horticultural Society in 1819, and introduced into France in 1840. 



TREE: very vigorous in habit and consequently a scant bearer while young, but a regular 

 and abundant bearer as it grows older; dwarfed on the Paradise stock, the tree becomes 

 an early bearer. 





SECTION OF BLENHEIM. 





