62 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. 



Russia. One of the four varieties recommended b.v the ]\Iinnesota 

 State Horticultural Societj- as of the first degree of hardiness. Tree 

 spreading, vigorous, productive. 



f'harlanit'ff. 



Fruit above medium to hirge, oblong, somewhat truncated, occa- 

 sionally roundish truncated, angular, rilil.ied, especially about the 

 stem; surface light vellow covered with dark crimson stripes and 

 splashes, mixed red on sunny side, with a heavy blue bloom; dots 

 white, minute, obscure; cavity, deep, acute, rilibed, with small radi- 

 ating patch of russet; stem medium to long; basin wide, shallow, 

 corrugated; calyx closed; segments large. Core closed; tulje funnel- 

 shaped; stamens median; flesh white, fine-grained, jileasant acid, 

 often slightly stained with red next to skin, good. August. 



Chenango (Cliciiaiigo Slrawberrii, Shrnrooil's Favorite). — Origin, 

 Lebanon, New York. Tree vigorous, spreading; fruit a great favorite 

 for dessert \\-herever grown. 



Fruit medium to large, olilong conic, regular, truncated, obscurely 

 ribbed; surface yellowish white, mostly covered with rosy crimson 



