1914 



FEUITS OF ONTAEIO. 



81 



WAGENER. 



A fine dessert apple when grown and highly colored, but samples grown in the shade 

 are inferior both in appearance and in flavor. The texture. of the fruit is too tender 



to be planted in the 

 commercial orchard. 



OBIGIN: AbramWage- 

 ner, Penn Yan, N.Y., in 

 1796. 



TEEE: a slow grower 

 and an early bearer; 

 not long-lived. An ex- 

 cellent variety to be 

 used as a filler. 



FRUIT : medium to 

 large, form oblate ; 

 color yellow, nearly 

 covered with crimson, 

 obscurely striped, with 

 a few light dots; stem 

 about seven-eighths of 

 an inch long, inserted 

 in a broad, deep, irregu- 

 lar cavity; calyx closed, 

 set in a funnel form, 



WAGENER. 



FLESH: yellowish, 

 texture fine grained, 

 very tender, juicy; 

 flavor subacid, very 

 agreeable. 



QUALITY : dessert, very 

 good; cooking, good. 



VALUE: home market, 

 first class; foreign mar- 

 ket, second class. 



SEASON: November to 

 February. 



ADAPTATION: succeeds 

 in best apple sections. 



somewhat 

 basin. 



corrugated 



SECTION OF WAGENER. 



6 F.O. 



