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REPORT ON THE 



No. 24 



FALLAWATER. 



form i-ound, regu- 

 lar, smooth ; color 

 pea green, shaded 

 on sunny side with 

 brownish red cheek, 

 dots sparse, large 

 light green ; stem 

 half an inch long, 

 stout, set in a nar- 

 row, moderately 

 deep cavity ; calyx 

 small, nearly closed, 

 set in a shallow 

 wrinkled basin. 



Flesh ; green- 

 ish white ; texture 

 fine-grained, firm, 

 moderately juicy ; 

 flavor mild subacid, 

 fair. 



Quality : fair 

 for cooking. 



Value : home 

 and foreign market 

 first class. 



Sea.son : Janu- 

 ary to March 



Fallawatf.e 



A large apple, 

 of even size and fine 

 appearance, which 

 is grown for market 

 quite extensively in 

 Pennsylvania, 

 Ohio, and in some 

 of the Western 

 States, and to some 

 extent in Ontario. 

 Were it more uni- 

 formly productive, 

 we could recom- 

 mend it as a profit- 

 able commercial 

 variety. 



Origin ; Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Tkee : a vigor- 

 ous grower; fairly 

 productive. 



Fruit : size 

 large to very large ; 



Section op Fallawater 



Adaptation : successfully grown at our Bay of Quinte station and 

 farther south ; also in the Lake Huron district, but in same localities it 



all parts of the Province 

 is said to be short-lived. 



