Ontario Sessional Papers, 1898-99, . Origin, brought from NorthCarolina to Kentucky with a lotof other seedling apples by Davis. Scions taken fromKentucky to Southern Illinoisabout 1820. Tree, spreading, fairly vigor-ous and very productive. Fruit, medium to large,roundish, truncated conical, un-equal ; color, yellow, striped andsplashed with red, having scat-tered areole dots ; stem, slender,one to one and a half inches longin a deep cavity ; calyx, erect,partly closed in a deep, widebasin. Flesh, white, tender, mild,sub-acid. Quality, dessert, poor; cook-ing, fairly good : ho
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1898-99, . Origin, brought from NorthCarolina to Kentucky with a lotof other seedling apples by Davis. Scions taken fromKentucky to Southern Illinoisabout 1820. Tree, spreading, fairly vigor-ous and very productive. Fruit, medium to large,roundish, truncated conical, un-equal ; color, yellow, striped andsplashed with red, having scat-tered areole dots ; stem, slender,one to one and a half inches longin a deep cavity ; calyx, erect,partly closed in a deep, widebasin. Flesh, white, tender, mild,sub-acid. Quality, dessert, poor; cook-ing, fairly good : home market,good; foreign market, very good. Season, January to May.(Bay of Quinte station.) Section of Ben Davis. Adaptation. Succeeds remarkably well at the Georgian Bay and Bay of Quinte stations. 62 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 21 A. 1899 CABASHEA. (Twenty Ounce Pippin).. Section of Cabashea. Origin, un-known. Tree, vigor-ous, spreading,unproductive. Fruit, large,3x4 inch,round-ish, oblate,slightly conical;skin, yellowishgreen, shadedwith dull red onthe sunny side ;stem, § of aninch long, stout,in a wide cavityof moderatedepth ; c al yxopen in a wideshallow basin ;core medium. Flesh, white,firm, coarse,sub-acid, onlyfair for cooking,useless for des-sert. Season, Oc-tober to Decem-ber. At Bay ofQuinte station,season givenfrom Decemberto February. Tested twenty years, at Maplehurst, Grimsby o Not worthplanting in On-tario. Throughconfusing itsname with thatof . the CayugaRed Streak,often calledTwenty Ounce,this apple h/isbeen widelyplanted in ourProvince. Thetree is unpro-ductive and thefruit, thoughlarge and fine inappearance,drops early andis poor in qual-ity. Twentytrees, at Maple-hurst, twentyyears planted,yielded aboutten barrels ofapples in 1895,the best so far.
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