GREENING'S APPLES 
Commercial varieties have become profitable because 
they possess money-making qualities. One of the major 
objects of Bud Selection is to retain the good attributes and 
prevent deterioration caused by cutting buds from transi¬ 
tional trees mixed with undesirable variations. All varieties 
are likely to deteriorate and the necessity of knowing that 
propagating buds are taken from sources of known desir¬ 
ability is of the greatest importance. 
In the description of varieties to follow, the name follow¬ 
ing the variety name in each case indicates the strain and 
is the name of the orchard in which the parent tree is 
located, from which propagating buds were taken. 
SUMMER APPLES 
JOYCE (Tree #629 Ohio State Experiment Station). This is a 
seedling apple originating at the Canadian Experiment Station. 
Prolific, ripens the latter part of August and has much merit. An 
outstanding red Summer apple. 
MELBA (Tree #633 Ohio State Experiment Station). This is a 
seedling apple originating at the Canadian Experiment Station. 
Ripens about mid-August and is of practically the same quality 
and appearance of the McIntosh. This apple is a distinct contribu¬ 
tion as an early apple of high quality, particularly where roadside 
markets abound. 
RED ASTRACHAN (Springer). This strain of Red Astrachan is 
a red selection. A splendid red Summer apple, of sub-acid flavor. 
Beautiful in color and shape. Flesh is fine-grained, crisp, tender 
and juicy. Good grower, coming into bearing rather young. Reli¬ 
able cropper. An excellent variety for home use or local market. 
Season, late July to September. 
SWEET BOUGH (Luplow). This selection maintains the original 
standard of quality of this variety. Flesh tender, of honey sweetness, 
excellent quality. Fruit large and handsome, smooth, sometimes 
faintly blushed. The best Summer sweet apple for home orchard 
or local trade. Season, August and early September. 
YELLOW TRANSPARENT (Miller). The outstanding yellow 
Summer apple. The tall growing growth type is preferred in this 
variety. Our parent tree of this type habitually bears good crops 
of large fruit annually. Low-spreading trees of equal age and size 
bear only every other year and the size of the fruit is greatly re¬ 
duced. Fruit uniform in shape and size. Skin smooth, waxy, pale 
greenish yellow changing to an attractive yellowish white. Flesh 
fine grained, crisp, tender, juicy, sub-acid with a very pleasant 
flavor. Season late July and August. 
AUTUMN APPLES 
CHENANGO, Scarlet (Ballard). This improved strain gives a 
beautiful color to a heretofore unattractively colored variety. In 
its season, this new colored Chenango is an outstanding apple in 
taste, odor and appearance. Size, medium to large; color, scarlet 
as the name implies. An early and regular bearer. Very profitable 
apple to grow for local and special market. Quality very good. 
Season, latter part of August and September. 
DUCHESS (Oldenberg). See Red Duchess. 
MAIDEN BLUSH (Wark #2). A true type Maiden Blush. Color, 
beautiful pale lemon yellow with crimson cheek. Comes into bear¬ 
ing young and is a reliable cropper. Fruit medium to above aver¬ 
age size, often very large. Uniform in size and shape. Crisp, 
tender, very juicy, and sub-acid in flavor. Excellent in quality. 
Season, September to November. 
RAMBO (Farnsworth). Typical old fashioned type Rambo fully 
up to the standards of the olden days. In this selection we have 
maintained the original true characteristics of this variety. The 
fruit is medium to large and uniform in size and shape. Color, 
pale greenish yellow mottled with red, striped with carmine. The 
flesh is firm, fine, very crisp, tender, juicy and mildly sub-acid. 
Season, October ond November. Its season in chemical cold storage 
extends to February. 
RED DUCHESS (Kiester). This is an improved color strain. The 
color type is solid red with indistinct stripes. The added color 
makes it an unusually attractive fruit. Profitable commercial vari¬ 
ety as well as good home use variety. Excellent culinary qualities. 
Tree unusually hardy, vigorous and a very reliable cropper. The 
fruit is very uniform in size and quality. Flesh, yellow, firm, 
slightly sub-acid and aromatic. Season, August to September. 
WINTER APPLES 
BALDWIN, Scarlet (Ruall). The fruit of this parent tree is very 
highly colored and much brighter in appearance than the ordinary 
Baldwin. The blossoms have pink stamens and pistils. The parent 
tree of this strain is spreading in growth habit, with drooping 
branches, indicating heavy production. Where a highly colored 
Baldwin is desired, this strain is unsurpassed. The fruit is large, 
uniform in size and the skin is tough, smooth and very at¬ 
tractive. The flesh is firm, crisp and rather tender and juicy. 
Agreeably sub-acid. Quality is very good and the season extends 
from November to March or April; to May or later in cold storage. 
BALDWIN (Spencer #2). This remarkable strain of the Baldwin 
apple is early and annual bearing. The parent tree is low spreading, 
pyramidal in shape. It produced twelve bushels of fruit when only 
seven years old, followed by annual crops. The total yield for the 
next ten years was one hundred and fifty bushels. The size of the 
fruit is large and the color typical of the variety. A check tree 
growing in the same orchard with the parent tree and a typical 
type of ordinary Baldwin is a tall growing and round top tree. It 
came into production later than the parent tree, is a bi-annual 
bearer and during the same years produced only eighty bushels of 
apples. It is very obvious that it would be folly to plant ordinary 
Baldwin when such trees as our Spencer Strain are available. 
Earlier, annual bearing and increased production resulting in great¬ 
er profits. Season and quality of fruit same as the Ruall Strain 
described above. 
CANADA RED. See Steele’s Red. 
*■ CORTLAND (Lyman). Cortland is an improved late McIntosh. 
The fruits of the two varieties are similar, but those of Cortland 
are more oblate, average larger, and are more uniform in size; 
they have more color and the red is lighter and brighter and the 
stripings and splashes are laid on differently; the taste of Cortland 
can hardly be distinguished from that of McIntosh; the flesh is 
firmer but just as juicy; the season is several weeks later; the 
apples do not drop so readily and ship better. The buds for this 
Lyman Strain Cortland were taken from top-grafted trees. The 
scions grew very vigorously and bore when young. 
DELICIOUS. See Solid Red Delicious. 
FAMEUSE (SNOW) (Spencer). This Super-Selected Strain of 
Fameuse also known as Snow is a red striped color type which 
carries more color than ordinary Snow apples. Combined with this 
is extra size. This is the largest Snow apple that has ever been 
produced. We regard this as an ideal type of striped Fameuse. 
The fruit is beautiful in appearance, of medium size. The skin is 
thin, tender, smooth and very attractive. The flesh is snow white, 
very tender, juicy, sub-acid. It is considered a very good dessert 
apple but not recommended for culinary purposes. The fruit hangs 
well to the tree. Season, October to mid-Winter. See also Solid 
Red Snow. 
GALLIA BEAUTY (Ohio #16). A superior color variation from 
the Rome Beauty. Fruit has the characteristic shape and quality 
of the original type. The color type is solid red without stripes, 
and is unusually attractive. Our propagating buds came from a 
progeny test tree growing at the Ohio State Experiment Station, 
Wooster, Ohio. This variety is far more attractive, therefore, more 
salable and should supersede Rome Beauty in new plantings. The 
fruit is large, smooth, handsome, uniform in size and shape. Thick 
skinned, therefore, ships and keeps well. Thrives best in Ohio and 
Indiana, Southern Michigan and Southern New York. The tree 
is very vigorous, coming into bearing early with a heavy annual 
crop. Because of its long stems and flexible branches, the fruit 
remains well on the tree during high winds. Season, November 
to February. 
GREENING. See Rhode Island Greening and Northwestern Green¬ 
ing. 
v GRIMES GOLDEN (Joehrendt). This selection was made because 
of the tremendous yields and the large size of the fruit produced 
by the parent tree. In spite of over-loads, the size has always been 
above the average for the variety. The average Grimes Golden 
weighs 4)4 ounces and measures 2$4 inches. Fruit from this 
Joehrendt parent tree averages 6)4 ounces and measures 3 l / 2 inches 
in diameter. It also bears much larger annual crops than the ordi¬ 
nary Grimes Golden and it is by far the finest and most profitable 
that has ever been introduced. The color of the fruit is a deep 
yellow, the flesh is yellow, very firm, tender, crisp, sub-acid and 
moderately juicy. It is an excellent variety for either dessert or 
culinary purposes. One of the best pure yellow Winter apples and 
fine for the commercial as well as the home orchard. We can 
supply these trees in either top-grafted or low budded. Season, 
November to February. 
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