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LIVLAND RASPBERRY {Lowland Raspherry). 



A handsome hardy summer apple of very good dessert quality, one of the best summer 

 apples for home use, but drops rather badly and ripens unevenly. 



OniGiN : Russia. 



Tree : moderately upright, vip;orous, moderately productive. 



Fkuit : medium to large, roundish to oblate, conic, angular, color pale yellow, more or 

 leas marked, splashed and ^^•ashed with bright red with a few pale yellow indistinct dots ; stem 

 short to raediunr, moderately stout in a narrow cavity of medium depth ; basin shallow, narrow, 

 slightly wrinkled. 



Flesh : white tinged with red, crisp, tender, juicy, subacid with a good flavor. 



Qu.iLiTV : dessert very good. 



Sk.\son : middle to last of August. 



Adaptation : quite hardy, having been fruited in Southern Manitoba. (Maaniii). 



LOUISE. ( Privcess Louise, IVofilrertvn.) 



An apple of great value for the home garden as a choice dessert variety, but probably not 

 sutticientlv productive to be profitable in the commercial orchard. 



Origin : at IVIanlehurst, near Grimsby ; a chance seedling of the Snow and first known as 

 Woolverton. Samples were first exhibited by Mr. L. Woolverton at a meeting of the Ontario 

 Fruit Growers' Association at Hamilton, where it was given the name Princess Louise, after 

 Her Royal Highness, wife of the then Governor-General, His Excellency the Marquis of Lome. 



Thee : of slender habit ; fairly vigorous ; hardy ; moderately productive. 



Fruit : roundish, size medium ; skin greenish yellow, of bright waxy lustre, with cheek 

 of clear bright carmine ; stem stout, three quarters of an inch long, in a narrow, moderately 

 deeji cavity ; calyx hall open, in a broad, shallow, slightly plaited basin. 



Flesh : pure white ; texture tender, fine, somewliat crisj), juicy with rich aromatic llavor. 



Quality ; dessert best ; cooking fair. 



Value : home market, first class. 



Ska.son ; November to February. 



