THE APPLE. 



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deep, acute, yellow; stem very short; basin deep, verv abrupt, with 

 corrugations in bottom; calyx closed; segments small, erect con- 



Titovka. 



vergent. Core wide open, sessile, clasping, roundish oblate; cells 

 obovate, roomy, widely slit; tube funnel-shaped; stamens median; 

 seeds few, short, jilump, several minute impei-fect seeds; Hesh yellow, 

 juicy, subacid, good. September, C)ctober. 



Tolman Sweet (Talhiiiiii Sircel). — Origin, Rhode Island; tree 

 vigorous, upright, spreading, very ])roductive. One of the hardiest 

 of the old eastern apjiles in the western prairie region. 



Fruit medium or above, nearly globular; sm-face whitish vello^^•, 

 often with faint blush on sunny side, usually a distinct dark line or 

 pin-scratch runs from stem to caly.\; dots few, grav, minute, rather 

 obscur(>, some with ^^"hitish bases; cavit}' rather wide, obtuse, medium 

 deep, regular; stem long, slender; Ijasin small, shallow, wrinkled, 

 leather-cracked; calyx small, closed or half open; segments erect 

 convergent. Core closed; cells ovate, slit; tube funnel-shaped; 

 stamens median; seeds .short, plumj); llesh white, firm, moderately 



