The Apple-Tree Part 5

Cogswell--n.e.

Cooper--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Cracking--s.e., n.c.

Doyle--s.e.

Early Pennock--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Esopus (Spitzenburg)--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt., pac.

Ewalt--n.e., s.e., mt.

Fallawater--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Fall Harvey--n.e., mt.

Fall Jenneting--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Fall Orange--n.e., s.e., n.c.

Fall Pippin--n.e., s.e., n.c., s.w., mt.

f.a.n.n.y--n.e., s.e., n.c., s.w.

Farrar--s.e.

Foundling--n.e.

Gano--n.e., s.e., n.c., s.w., mt.

Gilbert--s.e.

Golding--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Gravenstein--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt., s.w., pac.

Hagloe--n.e., s.e.

Hoover--s.e., n.c., mt., pac.

Hopewell--n.c.

Horse--n.e., s.e., n.c.

Hubbardston--n.e., s.e., n.c., s.w.

Hunge--s.e.

Huntsman--s.e., n.c., s.w., mt.

Isham (Sweet)--n.c.

Jacobs Sweet--n.e.

Kent--n.e., s.e., n.c.

Kernodle--s.e.

Lady Sweet--n.e., mt.

Lankford--n.e., s.e.

Lawver--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Lilly (of Kent)--n.e.

Lowe--s.e.

Lowell--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

McAfee--n.e., s.e, mt.

McCuller--s.e.

McMahon--n.e., n.c., mt.

Magog--n.e.

Maverack--s.e.

Milwaukee--n.c.

Minister--n.e., s.e., n.c.

Monmouth--s.e., n.c., mt.

Newell--n.c.

Nickajack--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Northern Spy--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt., pac.

Northwestern (Greening)--n.e., n.c., mt.

Oconee--n.e., s.e.

Ohio Nonpareil--n.e., s.e.

Ohio Pippin--n.e., s.e., n.c.

Ortley--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Paragon--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Patten (Greening)--n.c.

Pease--n.e.

Peck (Pleasant)--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Peter--n.c.

Pewaukee--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Porter--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Pumpkin Sweet--n.e., s.e., n.c.

Quince--n.e., n.c.

Ramsdell (Sweet)--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Red Astrachan--n.e., s.e., n.c., s.w., mt., pac.

Rhode Island (Greening)--n.e., s.e., n.c., s.w., mt., pac.

Ridge (Pippin)--n.e.

Rolfe--n.e.

Rome--n.e., s.e., n.c., s.w., mt.

Stark--n.e., s.e., n.c., s.w., mt.

Starkey--n.e., s.e.

Stayman Winesap--n.e., s.e., n.c.

Sterling--n.e., n.c.

Summer King--n.e., s.e.

Swaar--n.e., n.c., mt., pac.

Taunton--s.e.

t.i.tovka--n.e., mt.

Tompkins King--n.e., s.e., mt., pac.

Twenty Ounce--n.e., s.e., s.w., mt.

Utter--n.c.

Vanhoy--n.e., s.e.

Virginia Greening--s.e., mt.

Washington (Strawberry)--n.e., s.e., mt.

Watson--s.e.

White Pippin--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt., pac.

Wine--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Wistal--s.e., s.w.

Wolf River--n.e., s.e., n.c., mt.

Yellow Bellflower--n.e., s.e., s.w., mt., pac.

Yellow Newtown--n.e., s.e., n.c., s.w., mt., pac.

Yopp--s.e.

York Imperial--n.e., s.e., n.c., s.w., mt.

There are many odd varieties of apple not found in any list but about which questions are likely to arise. One of these is the Sweet-and-Sour. There is an old ribbed variety of this name, the ribs having an acid flesh and the furrows sweetish; it is little known and of no special value. Apples are sometimes found that are sweetish on one side and sourish on the other. The reasons for this kind of variation are no more understood than are those responsible for variance in color or shape or durability. One yet sometimes hears the pleasant fable that sweet-and-sour apples are produced by splitting the bud when the tree was propagated.

The Surprise is a small whitish apple with light red flesh. It is indeed a surprise to bite into such an apple, but it has little merit.

It is an early winter variety.

One is frequently asked about the Sheepnose apple, particularly by older people who remember it from early days and who deplore its infrequency in these latter times. The sheepnose shape--long-conical--is an infrequent variation, as apples go, and apparently none of these forms chances to have sufficient merit to keep it in the lists. The name is often applied to the Black Gilliflower, an old apple more than three inches long, dark red, of light weight perhaps because of the large core, ripening late in autumn to midwinter. It seems to be specially prized by children, perhaps in part because of its unusual shape and in part by its aromatic fragrance; but it is not a high-cla.s.s apple, and is now little seen. With the Rambo, Vandevere, some of the russets, Early Harvest, Jersey Sweet and other old worthies, it probably will pa.s.s away unless rescued here and there by the amateur.

To the lover of choice fruit nothing is old; every succeeding crop is as choice and new as is the new year itself, and one waits for it again and again.

One hears of seedless and no-core apples, as also of pears. The core is present but greatly reduced in size, and the seeds may be few and small. I have also raised practically seedless tomatoes. All these are infrequent variations that may be propagated by as.e.xual parts (cuttings, cions), but as yet none of them has any outstanding value.