. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. RIBSTON ROMAN STEM 55 largest size, have wide-spreading, drooping branches, rejoice in health and vigor, load themselves with fruit, and are long-lived. The faults of the fruits are that they bruise rather. 48. Rhode Island Greening. (X^) easily, are often disfigured by apple-scab, and scald badly in cold storage. The trees fail in not always holding their load well, in suscepti- bility to apple-scab, and in tenderness to cold. The variety is more fastidious to climate than to soil, refusing to flourish either in extreme northern or in southe
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. RIBSTON ROMAN STEM 55 largest size, have wide-spreading, drooping branches, rejoice in health and vigor, load themselves with fruit, and are long-lived. The faults of the fruits are that they bruise rather. 48. Rhode Island Greening. (X^) easily, are often disfigured by apple-scab, and scald badly in cold storage. The trees fail in not always holding their load well, in suscepti- bility to apple-scab, and in tenderness to cold. The variety is more fastidious to climate than to soil, refusing to flourish either in extreme northern or in southern apple regions. It prefers the fertile mtervale lands of New York or Michigan, whether sandy loam or clayey loam, requiring alwaj^s good drainage. The name commemorates the state of its nativity, but when and where in Rhode Island it first grew is not known. Its cultivation dates back nearly 200 years. Tree large, %'igorous, wide-spreading, drooping. Leaves large, broad, foliage dense. Fruit large or very large, uniform in shape and size, round or round- oblate, sometimes conic, regular or a little elliptical, sometimes obscurely ribbed, or sides slightly unequal; stem medium in length, green, pubescent; cavity acute, medium in depth and width, sj'mmetrical or rarely lipped, smooth, sometimes russeted and with narrow, outspreading russet rays; calyx large, closed, sometimes partly open, pubescent; lobes long, acute; basin small, shallow, obtuse, regular or furrowed ; skin thick, tough, smooth, waxy, green or yellow, sometimes with brownish-red blush which rarely deepens to red; dots greenish-white or russet, especially numerous toward the basin and often submerged ; prevailing effect green or yellow; calyx-tube wide, cone-shape with fleshy pistil point projecting into the base; stamens median; core small, Hbaxile; cells uniform, symmetrical, closed or partly open; core-lines meeting; carpels thin, flat, emarginate, round to round-cordate, sometimes tufted; seeds
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