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Second sheet, Variety  Ferdinand

Storage notes: 1927 crop. Out of storage 1/5/28.
Exam. 1/9/28. Prine eating condition.
very fine grain, tender, fairly juicy, mild
subacid. Pleasant but rather flat;
hardly good in quality.

9/13/27

Vigor of Tree: Exceptionally strong (Below average) weak.  Size:
Exceptionally large (average) small.

Foliage: Very abundant normal scanty.  Leaves: Very large
(medium) small; Color: (Light) dark normal.
Scanty now, many leaves on ground. Many yellow, some leaf spot.

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 <s>slender</s> stout); Long medium
short; Straight branched (twiggy); Medium open
dense; Willowy. Short on small limbs giving a twiggy appearance to top.
Spurs: Very many (medium) few;  Very medium slender stout;
½ - 1 - 2 - 3 inch; (Mostly <s>branched</s> unbranched);
Spur twigs: (Few) medium many; Terminal bearing mostly
considerable slight none

General aspect of tree: Medium slender open dense stocky
grower; Top round much broader narrower than tall.
Appears only moderately vigorous, Leaves, yellow, and
dropping give an unthrifty appearance - perhaps not typical

Illustrations:
Tree photographed Neg. No. 47877

Fruit painted #105949  Fruit modeled

Fruit described None

Disease notes <s>by J. W. Roberts:</s>
Considerable leaf spot. Main limbs
rough - scaly, suggesting some bark disease.

        