
New York AGRIOULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 583 
-. was incorrectly referred to in the Station’s annual report for 1892 
_ as No. 225, and in the annual report for 1893 as No. 226. The ' 
fruit is medium to large, oblate, irregular, obscurely ribbed, in- 
clined to conic; skin greenish yellow, shaded and faintlv striped 
with crimson on the exposed side, and sprinkled with light dots; 
stalk short, small, inserted in a deep russeted cavity ; calyx closed, 
set in a medium, irregular basin; flesh whitish, nearly sweet, 
moderately firm, fair to good in quality. Season, August. 
Ostrakoff.— Received here from Messrs. Ellwanger & Barry, 
Rochester, N. Y., under the name Astravaskoe. Prof. Budd 
described it in 1885' under the name of “ Ostrakoff’s Glass,” and 
in 1890° under the name Ostrakoff. It was planted here in 1884, 
and bore a few fruits four years later. This year its fruit began 
to drop as early as September 1, and before the end of the month 
it had nearly all fallen. Season here this year, September and 
October, but it should be stated that apples generally did not 
keep well this year. Prof. Budd describes it as a winter variety 
in central Iowa, and says that at the north limits of its growth it 
keeps till May. It may be, as claimed, a hardy tree, and desira- 
ble for the northern limits of the apple belt, but it can not be 
recommended for sections where old standard varieties succeeded. 
Size medium to large, oval or conic, yellow, and having numer- 
ous dots. Stem rather short and slender. Cavity narrow and 
deep. Calyx prominent, nearly closed. Basin wide, abrugt, 
corrugated. Flesh firm, breaking, moderately juicy, agreeable 
subacid, good flavor and good quality. 
Red Beitigheimer.— Fruit very large, roundish, with short, 
deep-set stalk, closed calyx and large, deep basin. Skin pale 
yellow, mostly covered with pale crimson. A magnificent fruit 
- for exhibition, but it is so large that it drops badly before ripe. 
A tree of this variety in one of the Station orchards had, as esti- 
mated the last of August, a crop of three bushels, but before the 
fruit had ripened nearly all the apples had dropped from the 
_ tree. The fruit should bepicked before it is ripe or fully colored. 
Season here extends into October. 
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1 Bul'etin Towa Agricultural College, 1885, East Europe Fruits, p. 
2 Bulletin Iowa Agricultural College, 1890, Revised Notes on Pinta. chention. etc., p. 23. 
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