CRAB-APPLE.'<. 221 



fruit; dots minute, yellow, ohsciu-e, many; cavity (il)tusp, regular; 

 stem long;, slender; hasin flat, enrru.nated ; calyx small, closed; 

 segments divergent. Core closed; tube conical; stamens median^ 



Hyslop Crab. 



flesh yellow, acid; good for culinary use and for cider. Septemlierto 

 November. 



Island Gem. — Origin, town of Grand Isle, (Iraiid Isle Countv, 

 Vermont. 



Fruit medium, round, slightly oblate, red, with yellow ground; 

 flesh yellow, mild, subacid, hardly good; use cider and jelly. Season, 

 October (in Cluimplain "\'allev). 



Jumbo. — Origin, Newport, AVrmont. "Probalily a hybrid." 



Fruit very large, oblong; surface bright red over yellow groimd; 

 flavor a mild acid; cjuality best to very best for flessert and kitchen. 

 November and Decemljer. 



Kentucky Mammoth. — Supposed origin Kentucky, as i( \vas 

 received about thirty years ago under the above name from Charles 

 Downing by B. A. Mathews, Knoxville, Iowa. Evidently a ni'tive 

 crab hybrid (Pyrus Imrcnsis x /'- d/o/((.s). 



Fruit much like the Mercer, Init lighter green and more u. late. 

 Desirable for culinary use as a substitute lor ([uinces. 



Lyman Prolific. — Originated by il. M. Lyuuui, Excelsior, .Minnesota, 

 about thirty-live years ago. 



