56 BULLETIN 1415, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Yellow Newtown is the leading yellow variety in the box trade. 
It shares the late spring and summer markets with the Winesap, as 
it is an equally long keeper and possesses similar excellent general 
utility characteristics. It 1s a medium-sized roundish apple with a 
tough skin, firm juicy flesh, sprightly flavor, rich aroma. Lack of 
great productiveness and the generally unpopular color have limited 
its prominence in the market. 
The McIntosh is one of the few varieties considered adapted to 
the boxed-apple trade, both West and East. Its season is short, as 
it tends to break down and lose quality soon after the first of the year. 
MISCELLANEOUS VARIETIES 
The White Pearmain and Ortley are light-yellow varieties of very 
good flavor and somewhat distinctive appearance. They form only a 
small fraction of the total supply but are rather popular in markets 
that do not insist on red color. Varieties of the barrel and basket 
class occasionally seen in boxes include Baldwin, Missouri Pippin, 
and Wagener. ‘They compete poorly with the standard box varieties 
as they do not compare favorably in quality, color, or uniformity. 
PRICE CLASSES 
Well known varieties of box apples may be placed in four genera: 
classes as to usual average city wholesale price: (1) The Delicious; 
(2) McIntosh, Winesap, Esopus Spitzenburg, Jonathan, Winter 
Banana, and Yellow Newtown; (3) Rome Beauty, Stayman Winesap, 
Grimes Golden, Gravenstein, and (4) Gano, Ben Davis, and various 
eee inferior in quality or in appearance or little known in the box 
ack. . 
; This grouping varies somewhat from season to season according to 
relative abundance and excellence and according to the crop con- 
ditions of competing varieties. The rating given varies somewhat 
in the different city markets according to preference in varieties, also 
when many varieties begin to break down toward the close of their 
season. The city market differential between:the groups ranges | 
generally from 10 cents to $1. Price trends of leading varieties are 
shown in Figure 25. 
PRICE TENDENCIES 
The range of prices of Northwestern boxed apples shows a tendency 
to steadiness for long periods throughout the season. The supply 
in storage in large cities seems to act as a price regulator as soon as the 
period of large arrivals of new shipments is past. 
The somewhat independent action of the boxed-apple market may 
be explained by the character of the boxed-apple supply, which con- 
sists largely of table stock of uniform character, is controlled some- 
what by marketing organizations, and is handled by a distinct class 
of buyers in fruit stores and fruit stands. On the other hand, the 
barrel and basket stock in eastern markets includes most of the cook- 
ing apples, represented by such leading varieties as Baldwin, Rhode 
Island, Greening, Ben Davis, and York Imperial; it is sold to a great 
extent by growers, provision dealers, and peddlers, responds to a 
somewhat different set of conditions affecting demand, is in direct 
competition with local supplies including much low-grade stock, and 
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