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10 years old. The fruit approaches best in quality in many sections in this 

 area and is always a desirable dessert and cooking variety. 



In all regions in Tennessee and in the Interior Low Plateau and Gulf Coast 

 Plains regions of western Kentucky it is usually large and highly colored and is 

 considered one of the most desirable varieties. It is better in dessert quality 

 there than in more northern regions. Under a high state of cultivation on 

 young trees the fruit sometimes cracks badly and is poorly colored, but such 

 troubles have not been observed except under these conditions. In this part 

 of the area it is about as resistant as the Winesap to diseases of the tree, 

 foliage, and fruit and is considered by some growers as more profitable than 

 that variety. The wood of the tree is not so resistant to cold as the Winesap. 

 It grows more rapidly and the fruit is much larger, making the yield much 

 greater than from the Winesap. 



In the Allegheny Plateau region in West Virginia, though large enough, the 

 size of the fruit is usually much smaller than it is farther south in Kentucky 



Fig. 25. 



-A Springdale apple tree at Gerrardstown, W. 

 Ridge region. 



in the Virginia Valley and 



and Tennessee. The color of the fruit is usually as high, but quite different. 

 It has a gloss and brightness in this part of the area representative of the 

 variety at its best. On very rich soil, however, the fruit has the large size 

 characteristic of it in the regions of western Kentucky and in all of Tennes- 

 see, and on such soils is not usually highly colored. In the Virginia Valley 

 and Ridge region the fruit is generally large and highly colored, though in the 

 richer soils it does not color as well as on less fertile soils. In this part of 

 the area the tree bears earlier and the fruit is distinctly better in dessert 

 quality than the York Imperial and Rome Beauty, and it outsells those varieties 

 in the general market. 

 Striped June. 



The Striped June variety is substantially the same as the Red June in tree, 

 leaf, and fruit characteristics except that the fruit is somewhat striped with 

 red instead of being a solid red color like Red June. The discussion of that 

 variety applies also to Striped June. 



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