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PEWAUKEE. 



A good commercial apple for the northern limits of the Ontario apple belt where 



Spy and Baldwin are 

 tender; but not as 

 hardy as was at first 

 supposed. It is not 

 gaining in popularity 

 because the fruit is de- 

 ficient in color and 

 quality and drops badly. 

 ORIGIN: seed of 

 Oldenburg crossed with 

 Northern Spy, raised 

 by G. P. Peffer, Pewau- 

 kee, Wisconsin. 



TREE: hardy, but not 

 equal in this respect to 

 Wealthy; vigorous ; 

 habit: round topped 

 with upright centre; an 

 annual bearer. 



FRUIT: size large; 

 form roundish oblate, 

 irregular, unequal ; 

 color yellow striped and 

 splashed with red; dots 

 PEWAUKEE. 



whitish; bloom grayish; 

 stem short, half an inch, 

 sometimes fleshy at 

 point of insertion, set 

 in small shallow often 

 flat cavity, sometimes 

 lipped; calyx half open, 

 large, in a small shal- 

 low, corrugated basin. 



FLESH: color yellow- 

 ish white with yellow 

 veinings; texture firm, 

 rather coarse, juicy; 

 flavor fair, subacid. 



QUALITY: dessert fair; 

 cooking good. 



VALUE: home or 

 foreign market first 

 class. 



SEASON: December to 

 March. 



SECTION OF PEWAUKEE 



