420 The Commercial Apple Industry 



cultivated in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 

 The Rambo is grown in considerable commercial quantities 

 throughout parts of Ohio and the Central West. It is 

 found also among the old orchards of the East. It is 

 surpassed by several varieties both for culinary and dessert 

 purposes. It is attractive when well colored, being a bright 

 red with yellow ground color, but very often this red color 

 is largely lacking. Under ordinary conditions, much of 

 the fruit is not of very good market quality. The tree is 

 more or less subject to winter-injury and breaks easily 

 under a heavy load of fruit. The Rambo is decreasing in 

 commercial importance in competition with better sorts. 



Ortley. 



The Ortley has recently attained prominence in the 

 boxed apple regions. It is one of the important varieties 

 of the Hood River Valley, that section producing about 

 100 cars in 1919. It is grown considerably in other west- 

 ern irrigated sections. It is highly prized as a dessert 

 apple and is well known to the fruit-stand trade. Ortley 

 is one of the leading varieties in Tasmania and Australia. 

 It long ago lost popularity among growers of the East, but 

 now seems to be gaining in favor in the West. It is an old 

 New Jersey variety, described by Coxe under the name of 

 Woolman's Long Pippin and was first named Ortley in 

 1825 when specimens of this variety were sent to London. 

 In the East it is not found outside of the home orchards, 

 and is rarely planted commercially except in irrigated 

 regions. It is a large pale yellow apple of the Yellow 

 Bellflower type and seems to attain better flavor in more 

 southern and western climates. Ortley is not a very heavy 



