1905 



FRUITS OF ONTARIO. 



29 



BEN DAVIS. 



One of the most popular market apples in the southweBtern and western states because of 

 its great productiveness, hardiness, good color and its keeping and shipping qualities. Highly 

 valued by some growers in Canada, but condemned by others on account of its inferior quality. 



Ben Davis. 



Oeigin : brought from North 

 Carolina to Kentucky with a lot 

 of other seedling apples by Mr. 

 Ben Davis. Scions taken from 

 Kentucky to Southern Illinois 

 about 1820. 



Tree : spreading, fairly vigor- 

 ous and very productive. 



Feuit : medium to large 

 roundish, truncated conical, un- 

 equal ; color yellow, striped and 

 splashed with red, having scat- 

 tered aureole dots; stem slender, 

 one to one and a half inches long 

 in a deep cavity ; calyx erect, 

 partly closed in a deep, wide 

 basin. 



Flesh : dull, white, mild, 

 subacid. 



Quality : dessert, poor; cook- 

 ing, fairlv good. 



Value : home market, second 

 class ; foreign market, first-class. 



Season : Januarv to Mav. 



Section of Ben Davis. 



