414 The Commercial Apple Industry 



White Pearmain (White Winter Pearmain). 



The White Winter Pearmain is well known to the boxed 

 apple and fruit-stand trade. It retains considerable com- 

 mercial importance in western Colorado, California and 

 the northwestern irrigated regions. The origin of this 

 variety is obscure and for a long time it was confused with 

 several kinds of Pippins. In 1858, however, it entered 

 the American Pomological Society catalogue as White 

 Winter Pearmain. It is a favorite dessert apple and is in 

 season from December to March. 



The tree is vigorous and rather long lived. The fruit is 

 uniform in size and -shape and inclined to be roundish or 

 conic in form, somewhat ribbed, but symmetrical. The 

 skin is pale yellow with a shade of brownish red. The 

 flesh is firm, fine grained and of superior aromatic flavor. 

 It is not recommended for commercial planting outside of 

 the irrigated districts in the West. 



Bed Limbertwig. 



The widest distribution of the Red Limbertwig is in the 

 southeastern states, particularly the Carolinas and Georgia. 

 In North Carolina it is of much commercial importance 

 and is the leading variety. Beach gives the Red and the 

 Green Limbertwig as separate varieties, and it is probably 

 the former that is so widely cultivated in the mountains 

 of western North Carolina, although different strains, 

 spoken of sometimes as the Royal, Sparger, Brushy Mount- 

 ain or Improved Limbertwig, are credited to this^region. 

 Here it is a rather deep red apple ; a good keeper, and well 

 adapted as a commercial variety. The tree is vigorous and 

 bears well, but has little distribution in other regions. 



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