1914 



FRUITS OF ONTAKIO. 



HIBERNAL. 



HIBERXAL (after S. B. Green). 



An attractive looking 

 cooking apple, valuable 

 also for hardiness of tree; 

 one of the best of the 

 Russian apples for our 

 colder districts. 



ORIGIN : Russia. 



TREE: vigorous, of strong 

 spreading habit; healthy; 

 very productive. 



FRUIT: size large; form 

 roundish oblate conical; 

 skin yellowish, striped and 

 splashed with red, with 

 small white dots; stem 

 medium length set in a 

 moderately deep regular 

 cavity with large patch of 

 russet; calyx half open in 

 a narrow shallow wrinkled 

 cavity. 



FLESH: color yellow- 

 ish; texture, tender, 

 crisp, juicy; flavor acid. 



QUALITY: dessert 

 poor; cooking good. 



VALUE: home market 

 in the north, first class. 



S E A s o x : September 

 to November. 



4 F.O. 





