1905 



FRUITS OF ONTARIO. 



39 



FALL PIPPIN. 



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A general favorite as 

 a tall cooking apple, 

 and possessing a fairly 

 good flavor as a dessert 

 apple. It was at one 

 time planted very 

 freely, but of late years 

 it has been discarded 

 because of its liability 

 to the apple scab. 



Origin : America, 

 probably from seed of 

 Holland Pippin. 



Tree : habit stout, 

 vigorous, spreading ; 

 head round; long lived, 

 some trees in Niagara 

 district are now over 

 100 years of age ; fairly 

 productive. 



Fhuit : large ; form 

 roundish, sometimes 

 obscurely ribbed ; skin 

 yellow, often with red 

 cheek and a few small 

 grey dots ; stalk half 

 to three quarters of an 

 inch long, set in a 

 small, moderately deep 



Fall Pii'i'lN. 



cavity; calyx small, 

 open in a small, moder- 

 ately deep basin. 



Flesh : greenish 

 white ; texture tender, 

 mellow, and fairly 

 juicy ; flavor brisk, 

 pleasant, aromatic. 



Quality : dessert 

 fair ; cooking best. 



Value : home mar- 

 ket first class, foreign 

 market second class. 



Season : November 

 and December. 



Adaptation : hardy 

 in the best apple dis- 

 tricts, but very subject 

 to scab. 



Section of Fall Pippin. 



