CRAB-APPLES. 



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flesh cream}' yellow, crisp, acid, somewhat astrinfjent, changing when 

 fully ripe to a pleasant agreeable subacid. August, September. 



Transcendent Ciab. 



Van Wyck. — A chance seedling on the farm of Jliss Caroline Van 

 Wyck, Fishkill, Dutchess Comity, \ew ^ork. Tree vigorous, uji- 

 right, productive. 



Fruit large, roundish, slighth' conic; surface smooth, whitish, 

 shaded and mottled -with light bright red, and covered with a thin 

 bloom; stem rather long, slender; cavity rather narrow, deejj; calyx 

 closed; basin medium, smooth. Cor(> small antl clo«xl; flesh whitish, 

 fine, rather firm, moderately juic)-, rather rich, honeyed sweet, good. 

 September. (Do^\'ning.) 



Virginia. — Found about fortj' j'ears ago mixed among trees of the 

 old Hewes Virginia by N. K. Fluke, Davenport, Iowa. In Iowa and 

 Wisconsin the ^'irginia has been found very hardy and desiralile as a 

 stock for toi)-grafting owing to its ^\•ide-sl)reading top and vigorous 

 growth. 



Fruit medium, roundish, flattened, regular; surface yellow, 

 thinly covered with red, sometimes nearly solid red; cavity- obtuse, 

 regular, slightly russeted; stem long; basin nearly or quite flat, 



