98 BULLETIN 587, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
average dates at which the experimental lots passed prime market 
condition, and their susceptibility to scald. 
In the same connection the notes on the varieties, following the 
table, are of interest, as they include important factors in connection 
with the successful storage of each variety. 
Taste V.—Comparative cold-storage keeping qualities of varieties of Pacific 
Northwestern apples. 
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Average date experimental lots passed Susceptibility to 
No. Variety. prime condition for market. seald 
14 PRVOAINTOR S| Ate ee ee ee eee ane oe Mayiorlater sess eee sete tee eee | Practically free. 
Papel pede Eyry(GKs\"l Crh a eqs ee aa Sach ee ee INS We tee Ocak en REY SAS nT Very slight. 
3 | Arkansas Black Pie Alay Se aml (0 oR Ee Pea Bia a a ag a res a ee Do. 
AA WV CS ape ses sy ie ey Spa da oh ee | WES Oni Monell oe oo 2 asec e ease Stent to bad. 
SAP AWellowANG WLOWaee se ene ce See eee eeeee NG AE erty OO ata Sc Mil 
6 | Rome (Rome Beauty).-.-.-.-.-.-.-- Middle OfeAprile eee eo eee en oe A De 
{es PNOECNEIN SP Ye eas he cot amen ee sete ee 2 [anise 6 Ose eae a None Sa Lei ine se eee Ps SES Slight. 
Salis MaSSOUTH ue eoe Cee Sey coe aN eer a Eat Re. oe eee at Saber Do. 
Ot SD elCIOUS ASS eee cette eerie seecoes astoteMarchss se. - ee eeeee rae nae onic ene to bad. 
TO) |) N@Ovelic Seahorse ee IMHO Biv Soles Sool staeeel goes 
1 Wan bereis am ania oi See see meres sal samt Ose ee OR a Re en ee ticki 
TDW AWAinii@ lepine rhe ens ne nee snaso iseac (6 (Vee Ses, SEAS tra ee er Slight to bad. 
135 PB ORUD aVvisteosereee smears Seen eee lo ce CORA Ae SAS ao Seebeate SaHeras sae Mod Do. 
14 | Esopus (Spitzenberg)......--..------ ashothebruany ease sss) saree wees Very slight. 
15 | Gano and Black Ben-..---.-.-..----- Middle of February.........-.---.---- Bad. 
[GA Sbayanan WV INeSa ps: see e ee anal ec (0 Koo apeks en eer ha eee eS Do. 
117s Petstel (Oke OVS yyes ae ety eer e eae sc eI Mita Fae dl ee ALC at AL AEA andl we Slight. 
AS VOTLLOVA asa ees cise eae ape terete ee HC DEW AT yt aes ee ys Carel te Slight to bad. 
LOB Min sh aivad Vane te eee aes ene Hinson Mebruanye reese oe eee eee eel Slight. 
DOM IMGINTOSHE oe eh eee MiddileiotJantiany=sseere sae eer ere Do. 
DIM OM KInNS PRa eae Se E28 CREA OS oh Sea ee ee cea See Ae eee eee erent to bad. 
iia PANIC L OTN CT: Sc, a opis Sep a a SN in ce Me ie er Be oe Bad. 
Zann ath ames ag Ree eee sae ore First of January (very valuable).....- Very slight. 
O24) wArkansas (Maminoth Black. wil) ss -|esse. senses ee aso eee eee ee alee ine Bad. 
DON MGRIMES= Ss eet toy SR oe eae see sabes Middle to last of December.-........-- Do. z 
NOTES ON THE KEEPING QUALITIES OF VARIETIES OF APPLES GROWN IN THE 
PACIFIC NORTHWEST. 
RatnigR.—The keeping qualities of the Rainier apple are unsurpassed by 
those of any other variety of the Pacific Northwest that has yet come to 
the attention of, the United States Department of Agriculure. Its ability to 
retain its firmness, brightness, and quality with almost no decay or skin blemish 
places it above even the Arkansas Black, Winesap, and Yellow Newtown. In 
82° F. cold storage it keeps in prime condition into May or later, and instances 
are known where large numbers of boxes have been held in excellent condition 
into September of the year following their harvest. 
The department’s first record of the Rainier is from the farm of W. W. Scott, 
at North Yakima, Wash., where there is an orchard of what were wrongly called 
Hubbardston Pippins. No very accurate or dependable record could be found 
as to their true name and they were given the name Rainier. The Rainier is 
of medium size, with rich yellow ground color, mottled and washed with red, 
splashed and striped with dark red; oblong-conical, irregular, Symmetrical, fairly 
uniform in shape; and of reasonably good quality. 
Hypr Kine.—The Hyde King possesses valuable cold-storage qualities. It is 
a large beautifully bluish yellow apple of unusual firmness, which it holds 
throughout its storage life. Little or no scald occurred in this variety. In the 
experimental storage lots it usually kept well into May in good marketable con- 
dition. 
ARKANSAS Brack.—The Arkansas Black, one of the most important commercial 
varieties of this section, is also one of the longer keeping varieties. Well-colored 
