28 BULLETIN 587, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
average dates at which the experimental lots passed prime market 
condition, and their susceptibility to scald. 
In the same connection the notes on the varieties, following the 
table, are of interest, as they include important factors in connection 
with the successful storage of each variety. 
TABLE V.—Comparative cold-storage keeping qualities of varieties of Pacific 
Northwestern apples. 
= ae Average date experimental lots passed Susceptibility to 
No. Variety. prime condition for market. seni 
pees: 
he SRaInIerS ote weep eet ee eee | Mayorlaterice 44 oe ee ee eee | Practically free. 
DAC) Oy CIES spn erg ope ep ee May te ne a ee Very slight. 
3 | Arkansas Black Beek Stree eu a | bee ae GOS ee ee eee Do. 
APA MVALTE OS QJ) Sear ee on city SS Soares cee Pease gt 3% 0} al ieee oe er Remi Ee Shebte to bad. 
5a 2YCuow New LO wal seo sor eae RN On aa ae See ee ee eee 
6 | Rome (Rome Beauty)...........-... “\iidale OPA pril 353 ene oe eee 
FULPNOELHEED Spye ace. .* we. foes eS | seit’ d6)2 3 oe Feet eee Slight. 
Sal MISSOUFL So een mae ee Ph Pee eo (6 (0 ete et pe ee an ee ie SR ae 
Osta GWCIOUS 334520252 ane Bae eee Past of Marche. =~ 2s aa eee eee eee Slight | to bad. 
{QRS Aaya) Nero Gil See ee ee ee Wrsto1 March: = 32 3h ee eee Do. 
ines Witter batalic ee 2 lenen eens eae CO ee eee BS eee eS A Slight. 
627 ANTE Os CALM ANN Gee a See ne ae eee DOs 25 Se SE eee Slight to bad. 
1G BenaD aviSen- cesses ee oe ee eee ee ee dOs 2.22 er Ce ee eee Do. 
14 | Esopus (Spitzenberg)..........-.--.-- hastot Mebruahye. 2s. ee Very slight. 
15 } Gano and Black Ben..........-...-- Middle of February .--2<--<2-3--.2--== Bad. 
16 | StaymManawihesap. 2a 5-— 625 saya ope oe GOs os3 5 oo Pe ee ; 
i) | SHIGE Gee Se ee Eo Sore gas) SS epee eee ie Jones Ste 326s bo sees=e= Slight. 
SE ROR GLOW ae ene oe a Seo eek oe Hebruary - 22. - 50 eee eee stent to bad. 
HOS esa Vid S342 Sos eee tek eee Hirst of February =\--6-24 4 2 ee Slight. 
pale ee NECHTG OSE serra meee en Sw, Middleoi January = eee Do. 
21 | Tompkins King...-.-: Pode dh? sec JENSSa ct oe ee eee | Slight to bad. 
DOM aW AL ON Clme scene eee 2 et ee Le i ks See Bad. 
OSG eonatHane geet ithe ek es First of January (very valuable)...... Very slight. 
DisiPAr kansas CMammoeth Black Twig). fo 22 2 2-52 see meee ee oe eee Bad. 
POMPE GRETIMNESS Gace ee he ey sexs ABS LASS AL Middle to last of December........--... Do. 
NOTES GN THE KEEPING QUALITIES OF VARIETIES OF APPLES GROWN IN THE 
PACIFIC NORTHWEST. 
RaAtNiER.—The keeping qualities of the Rainier apple are unsurpassed by 
those of any other variety of the Pacific Northwest that has yet come to 
the attention of the United States Department of Agriculure. Its ability to 
retain its firmness, brightness, and quality with almost no decay or skin blemish 
places it above even the Arkansas Black, Winesap, and Yellow Newtown. In 
32° F. cold storage it keeps in prime condition into May or later. and instances 
are known where large numbers of boxes have been held in excellent condition 
into September of the year following their harvest. 
The department’s first record of the Rainier is from the farm of W. W. Scott, 
at North Yakima, Wash., where there is an orchard of what were wrongly called 
Hubbareston Pippins. No very accurate or dependable record could be found 
as to their true name and they were given the name Rainier. The Rainier is 
of medium size, with rich yellow ground color, mottled and washed with red, 
splashed and striped with dark red; oblong-conical, irregular, symmetrical, fairly 
uniform in shape; and of reasonably good quality. 
HypE Kine.—The Hyde King possesses valuable cold-storage qualities. It is 
a large beautifully bluish yellow apple of unusual firmness, which it holds 
throughout its storage life. Little or no scald occurred in this variety. In the 
experimental storage lots it usually kept well into May in good marketable con- 
dition. ‘ 
ARKANSAS BLacK.—The Arkansas Black, one of the most important commercial 
varieties of this section, is also one of the longer keeping varieties. Well-colored 
