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New Yore AcricutturaAL Experiment STATION. 581 
‘corrugated ; skin smooth, pale yellow or green, splashed and 
sheded with red; flesh subacid, not so crisp and juicy as that of 
Oldenburg, but has more of a yellowish tinge. Better for dessert 
use than Oldenburg, and ripens about with that variety. It is 
not superior to other varieties of its season for dessert use, and 
is inferior to Oldenburg for culinary use, being more mild in 
flavor, therefore it does not seem to be worthy of introduction 
in the apple-growing sections of New York State. 
Groskoe Selenka Gruner.—A Russian app'e received from 
Eliwanger & Barry, in 1883. It was topworked on a young tree 
‘and produced a small crop of fruit five years later. The tree is 
upright, inclined to spread, productive; young shoots slender, 
pale brown color, downy; fruit medium, ribbed, roundish, flat- 
tened; skin thin and tender, nearly white, slightly tinged with 
pink on the exposed side; calyx closed, segments reflexed, set in 
a narrow, shallow corrugated basin; stem rather long and slen- 
der, set in a narrow cavity; flesh firm, crisp, juicy, white, fair 
quality, but becomes water-cored and worthless if allowed to 
remain on the tree until fully ripe. Season, August. 
Hartford Rose.— Topworked on a bearing tree in 1888, and 
bore its first fruit five years later. Fruit above medium, oblong 
conical; yellow, nearly covered with pale red, occasionally 
splashed with carmine and sprinkled with numerous pale dots; 
its color is not brilliant enough to be as attractive as other apples 
of its season. Stem rather long and slender, set in a deep, nar- 
row cavity; calyx small, closed, set in a narrow, rather shallow 
basin; flesh nearly white, tender, fine-grained, moderately juicy, 
mild subacid, fine flavor, good quality. It is not equal to Mother 
as a dessert apple either in quality or appearance. It is excellent. 
for culinary use. Season, September and first of October. 
This variety was received from W. P. Rupert & Sons, Seneca, — 
Ontario county, N. Y., who state that it originated as a seedling 
in Connecticut. About eighty years ago the man who owned the 
original tree brought scions of it to Seneca, N. Y., and grew the 
variety on the farm now owned by Messrs. Rupert. It was 
named by them, and,so far as they know, it has never been 
disseminated. 
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