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SWAAR SECTION. 
Mann, Seneca Favorite, Swaar. 
ROMANITE GROUP. 
Variable in size, highly colored, from poor to good in quality, 
keeping very late. Southern apples of little value in New York 
with the possible exception of one or two sorts for the warmer 
districts. 
Buckingham, Lansingburg, Pennock, 
Fink, _ Minkler, Romanite, 
Gilpin, Missing Link, Stark, 
Glenlock, Nero, York Imperial. 
ROME GROUP. 
Above medium, roundish, handsomely colored apples of indiffer- 
ent quality. Rome only succeeding in some parts of New York. 
Lankford, Rome. 
RUSSET GROUP. 
Ranging from small to above medium in size, russet colored, 
with peculiarly fine-grained dense texture, sprightly flavor and good 
keeping quality. Illy defined as to adaptations but some member 
succeeding in all of the New York districts. 
Brownlees, Golden Russet (of W.N. Y.), Roxbury, 
Bullock, Hunt Russet, Sailee Russet, 
Carpentin, Long Island Russet, ° Swazie, 
English Russet, Pomme Grise, Sweet Russet. 
SUMMER RAMBO GROUP. 
Large, attractively striped with red, roundish oblate, coarse in 
texture, and of average quality, ripening in early fall. Adapta- 
tions not well defined for New York. 
Grosh, Summer Rambo, Western Beauty. 
SWEET BOUGH GROUP. 
Summer or fall apples of sweet flavor, medium to large size, 
variably conic, good quality. Very general in adaptations, although 
some of the members cannot be grown in cold localities. 
Autumn Bough, Fullerton Sweet, Sweet Bough. 
Broadwell Sweet, 
