Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1898 . Lady. Trek, upright habit and bears fruit in clusters, vigorous, only fairly hardy and productive. Fruit, very small, flat oblate. Color, green turning to yellow, half covered with a richred cheek, and many tiny dots which are more numerous toward the Stem, slender, halfan inch long, set in a deep regular cavity. Calyx closed in a small wrinkled Section of Lady. Flesh, greenish white, fine grained, crisp and juicy ; flavor, pleasant. Season, December to May. Quality, dessert, best ; cooking, too small to be of
Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1898 . Lady. Trek, upright habit and bears fruit in clusters, vigorous, only fairly hardy and productive. Fruit, very small, flat oblate. Color, green turning to yellow, half covered with a richred cheek, and many tiny dots which are more numerous toward the Stem, slender, halfan inch long, set in a deep regular cavity. Calyx closed in a small wrinkled Section of Lady. Flesh, greenish white, fine grained, crisp and juicy ; flavor, pleasant. Season, December to May. Quality, dessert, best ; cooking, too small to be of any value ; market, high value inspecial markets. Adaptation. Successfully grown as far north as the Bay of Quinte 18 FRUIT EXPERIMENT STATIONS. Mann apple is not very highly recommended for extended orchard planting in Ontario, because of its rather unat-tractive green color inshipping season in Octo-ber. The tree has themerit of being a produc-tive variety and an earlybearer, but the fruit isinclined to drop early, andto be small, when notthinned, Origin, New YorkState, a chance seedling. Tree, hardy, vigorous,spreading, with slenderbranches; an early andregular bearer, inclined tooverload. Frx;it, of large sizewhen thinned and wellcultivated, nx3| inches;form, roundish, oblate, regular ; skin, dull green,Mann & . , yellowing at maturity, nearly covered with light green dots ; stalk half an
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