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It is a very delicious apple for table use on account of its banana-like flavor 
but is usually too mild for culinary purposes. The many good qualities of this 
apple make it very desirable as a commercial variety and by all means should 
not be overlooked when making up a list for home orchards. 
It is particularly adapted to the interior valley and foothill sections and has 
been planted with good results in the central coast regions and high altitudes. 
Ripens in October and keeps well until Christmas. 
Winter Banana 
Winesap is one of the oldest and most widely known and grown 
Winesap apples in the United States. The tree is a very vigorous grower 
and comes into bearing at a very early age and is a regular cropper. It is par¬ 
ticularly adapted to light, rich deep soils. It is of a roundish spreading habit 
with an open top, grows to medium size, and has rather thin small foliage. 
The fruit is medium and uniform in size, roundish, sometimes slightly coni¬ 
cal. The skin is thick, smooth, and glossy red, blotched with a dark purplish 
red over a yellow ground color; sometimes covered with scattering whitish 
dots. The prevailing color, however, is always a deep red. The flesh is of a 
yellow tinge, very firm, crisp, but rather coarse and slightly sub-acid. 
Winesap is recommended for its commercial qualities as well as for all culi¬ 
nary purposes and is reported as doing exceedingly well in the central coast 
regions, interior valleys and foothills although quite extensively planted in the 
northern coast regions where it is considered a profitable variety. Ripens in 
November and keeps well until February. 
Yellow Bellflower is one of the most attractive as 
Yellow Bellflower well as one of the most highly esteemed apple? 
grown. In California it reaches its highest type of perfection. The tree is 
moderately vigorous forming a spreading habit and is an excellent bearer. 
The fruit is inclined to be rather large and oblong and more or less ribbed, 
often with prominent ridges at the apex, sides being sometimes unequal. The 
skin is of decidedly attractive color, being shaded and often blushed with a 
brownish red in the sun which improves greatly by becoming a more clearly 
defined yellow as it matures in storage. The flesh is whitish, tinged with a 
pale yellow and moderately fine grained, rather tender, juicy and possesses a 
fine aroma. When first picked it has a tendency to be rather too acid for 
dessert use but its qualities greatly improve after several months of storage. 
The growing of this apple has been very successful in the central and north¬ 
ern coast regions, interior valleys and foothills and in fact most every locality 
where the soil and climate is adapted to the growing of other varieties of 
apples. Ripens in October and keeps well until January. 
•y I* Mi. p. The Yellow Newtown Pippin is a popular and 
i eilow INewtOWn r tppin excellent apple for storage and commercial 
purposes and for the export trade. It is successfully grown in all parts of the 
United States. The tree is rather a slow grower, moderately vigorous, some¬ 
times becoming very large. 
The fruit while uniform in size varies greatly in form which is usually round¬ 
ish. oblate and somewhat angular. The skin is rather tough, slightly rough¬ 
ened with brownish russet dots and inclined to be of a greenish shade at har- 
