. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 54 RED CANADA RHODE ISLAND GREENING trachan is a Russian apple introduced into America in 1835, and has long been grown in all of the apple regions of America. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense. Fruit medium to large, not uniform in size or sliape, round- oblate, conical, ribbed, sides unequal ; stem slender, bracted; cavity acute, deep, broad, often russeted witli greenish-russeti usually symmetrical, sometimes lipped; calv-x large, open, or closed; lobes long, broad; basin sliaUow, narrow, obtuse, wrinkled; skin thin, tender, s
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 54 RED CANADA RHODE ISLAND GREENING trachan is a Russian apple introduced into America in 1835, and has long been grown in all of the apple regions of America. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense. Fruit medium to large, not uniform in size or sliape, round- oblate, conical, ribbed, sides unequal ; stem slender, bracted; cavity acute, deep, broad, often russeted witli greenish-russeti usually symmetrical, sometimes lipped; calv-x large, open, or closed; lobes long, broad; basin sliaUow, narrow, obtuse, wrinkled; skin thin, tender, smooth, pale yellow often overspread with light and dark red, splashed and irregularly striped with deep crimson or carmine and covered with heavy bloom ; dots numerous, white; calyx-tube long, funnel-form ; stamens median ; core small, abaxile; cells closed or open ; core- lines clasping; carpels broadly ovate, tufted; seeds small, wide, plump, obtuse; flesh white often tinged with red, fine, crisp, tender, juicy, brisk subacid, aromatic, some- times astringent; good to very good; late July to September. RED CANADA. Fig. 46. Canada Red- streak. Red Winter. Steele's Red. Were the trees as satisfactory as the fruit. Red Canada would take high rank among the commercial apples of the country. The apples are char- acterized by firm, crisp, fine-grained, juicy, aromatic, richly flavored iiesh; they are me-. 46. Red Canada. (XVa) dium to large, shapely, uniform in size and shape, and colored a beautiful fine, deep red, striped with deeper red on a background of yellow, the whole surface being conspicuously "marked with large fawn-colored dots. The trees, however, signally fail; they are precari- ously hardy, lack in vigor, subject to most of the troubles that apple flesh is heir to, fastidi- ous as to soils, and seldom sure or annual bearers. Red Canada probably originated in New England a hundred or more years ago, and has been most largely planted in New England, New York, and
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