1905 



FRUITS OF ONTARIO. 



81 



WHITNEY. 



( Whilnen No. 30) . 



A hybrid crab, which originated in Illinois, and has proved itself valuable in Northern 

 Illinois, in Minnesota, and in some parts of our Canadian North West. As long ago as 1 894^ 

 this apple was in bearing at Prince Albert in Alberta, and the Board of Control of our Ontario 

 Fruit Experiment stations is having it tested in several places in New Ontario. 



The apple is large tor its class ; it is a good cooking apple and a fair dessert apple. 



Thee: productive ; very hardv- 



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Whitney . 



Section of Whitney. 



Fruit: medium size ; form roundish conical, slightly angular; color dark red, splashed 

 with dark crimson on a yellow ground, with obscure small white dots ; stem one inch Ion,' set 

 in a flat wrinkled basin ; calyx closed in a regular slightly russeted ba.sin . 



P'lesh: color yellowish ; texture tender, juicy ; flavor subacid. 



Quality : cooking very good ; dessert good . 



Value; special market first class. 



Se.\son : August to September. 



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