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Second sheet, Variety Garden Royal

Storage notes:

11/2/28
Vigor of Tree: Exceptionally strong (average) weak.  Size:
Exceptionally large (average) small.

Foliage: Very abundant normal scanty.  Leaves: Very large
medium small; Color: Light dark normal.  75% fallen.

Habit of Growth:  (Very upright) roundish broad flat spreading.
Central leader: (Partially retained) disappeared.

Branching:
Main limbs: Very medium (long) short;  Very medium (slender)
stout; Medium (straight) crooked.
Secondary limbs: Numerous (medium) few; Medium (slender) stout;
Drooping.
Twigs: Many (medium) few; Medium (slender) stout; (Long) medium
short; (Straight) branched twiggy; Medium (open)
dense; Willowy.
Spurs: Very many (medium) few;  (Very <s>medium</s> slender) stout;
(½ - 1 - 2) - 3 inch; Mostly branched (unbranched);
Spur twigs: Few medium many; Terminal bearing mostly
considerable slight none

General aspect of tree: Medium (slender open) dense stocky
grower; (Top <s>round</s> much <s>broader</s> narrower than tall).

Illustrations:
Tree photographed

Fruit painted Several       Fruit modeled

Fruit described Several

<s>Disease notes by J. W. Roberts:</s>
The slender upright growth and
slender main and secondary limbs
produce a tree of rather striking appearance
Beach in Apples of New York. describes the 
tree as having a roundish head when full
grown. This raises a question as to whether we had
Garden Royal or something else.
        