APPLES 231 
Historical. The Winter Banana origi- 
nated on the farm of David Flory, near 
Adamsboro, Cass county, Indiana, about 
1876. It was introduced by Greening 
Brothers, Monroe, Michigan, in 1890. 
However, it has not been largely planted 
in that state, and probably is not well 
adapted. In the Pacific Northwest it is 
regarded as one of the most beautiful ap- 
ples grown, but not likely to become a 
favorite for the markets on account of 
its susceptibility to bruises. 
Yellow Bellflower 
The Yellow Bellflower belongs to a 
group of apples, most of which have fruit 
predominantly yellow. The fruit of the 
group is characteristically oblong or 
roundish oblong and often markedly 
ovate or conic, with the core large and 
abaxial, cells wide open and carpels elon- 
gated, rather narrow and much concave. 
The group is represented by the follow- 
ing varieties: Dickinson, Flory, Kirk- 
land, Mason Orange, Minister, Moyer, 
Newman, Occident, Ortley, Titus, Pippin, 
Yellow Bellflower. 
The fruit of the Yellow Bellflower is 
large, but is somewhat variable in size 
so that there is often a large per cent of 
the apples, especially when grown where 
the rainfall is scarce during the growing 
season, that do not reach marketable 
Size. At the time of picking it is gener- 
ally a greenish yellow, but as it ripens 
it comes to be a light golden yellow. It 
is rather acid until well ripened when it 
is pleasant and luscious: It is tender and 
easily bruised, yet when grown in some 
sections, if carefully handled, it keeps 
well, while in others it deteriorates rap- 
idly. In California it is one of the best 
apples when grown upon the highlands 
or mountain sides. 
It originated in New Jersey, and the 
first account we have of it is in 1817, but 
it soon came to be largely propagated in 
all the eastern and middle states and is 
now fairly well distributed throughout 
the United States. 
The tree is from medium to large, vig- 
orous, upright, with spreading branches, 
bark dull brownish red with shades of 
green, uniformly overlaid with moderately 
thick scarf skin, more or less pubescent. 
Yellow Newtown 
The Yellow Newtown is one of the best, 
if not the best, commercial yellow apples. 
In pomological literature it is often called 
Newtown Pippin, Yellow Newtown Pip- 
pin and Albemarle Pippin. There is also 
a Green Newtown, which resembles the 
Yellow Newtown so closely in all except 
color that it is difficult if not impossible 
to distinguish between them in any other 
Rome Beauty. 
Yellow Newtown. 
Masted Photo. 
