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ate. Seeds often few, not well developed, dark brown, large, long, some- 

 what acute, slightly tufted. 



Flesh tinged with yellow or greenish, firm, moderately coarse, crisp, rather 

 tender, moderately juicy, rather mild subacid, fair to good. 



Season October to December or January. 



TWENTY OUNCE. 



References, i. Mag. Hort., 10:210. 1844. 2. Downing, 1845:140. 3. 

 Hovey, Mag. Hort., 13:70. 1847. fig. 4. Thomas, 1849:153. 5. Cole, 1849: 

 120. 6. Elliott, 1854:126. 7. Hooper, 1857:94. 8. Downing, 1857:198. 



9. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1862. 10. Warder, 1867:510. Hg. 11. Downing, 

 1869:388. 12. Fitz, 1872:168. 13. Leroy, 1873:261. Hg. 14. Barry, 1883: 

 356. 15. Wickson, 1889:245. 16. Lyon, Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1890:298. 

 17. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:236. 18. Ih., 1892:251. 19. Budd-Hansen, 1903: 

 191. 20. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bui, 48:59. 1903. 21. Beach 

 and Clark, N. Y. Sta. Bui, 248:147. 1904. 



Synonyms. Aurora (8, 11, 13). Cahashazv, incorr. (21). Cayuga Red 

 Streak (6, 10, 17). Cayuga Red Streak (3, 5, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 

 21, 22). Coleman (8, 11, 13). De J^in du Conn. (13). Dix-huit Onces 

 (2, 13). Eighteen Ounce (4, 6, 13). Eighteen Ounce Apple (2, 8, 11). Gov. 

 Sezvard's (3, 6). Lima (8, 11, 13). Morgans Favorite (8, 11, 13). Twenty 

 Ounce (i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21). Tzventy Ounce (6, 



10, 13). Tzventy Ounce Apple (2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 12). Tzventy Ounce Pippin 

 (3, err. 4 and 6). Wine (21, of Conn. 11). 



This is one of the most satisfactory of the fall varieties for 

 commercial planting in New York. It is also highly esteemed 

 for home use. The fruit is large, attractive, green becoming 

 yellowish with broad stripes and splashes of red. It is in sea- 

 son from September to early winter. It keeps w^ell for a fall 

 variety and stands shipping w^ell. Usually it should be handled 

 direct to the consumer without going into cold storage. In 

 common storage the fruit goes dowm rapidly during October 

 and November. In cold storage it may be kept till midwinter 

 (21). It hangs pretty w^ell to the tree for so large an apple, is 

 pretty uniform in size and generally reliable and satisfactory in 

 color and quality. The fruit is in good demand in general 

 market and sells at good prices. It is especially esteemed for 

 culinary uses but it is inferior to other varieties for evaporating. 

 The tree is a rather vigorous growler with main branches erect 

 and laterals rather willowy and more or less drooping. It 

 seems to succeed particularly w^ell in favorable locations in the 



