. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 33. Mcintosh. (XVa) and characteristic bloom. Well grown, each apple seems to have been turned out of the same mould—a sphere modified by a little oblateness. When the apples are cut, flesh of snowy whiteness rimmed and stained with red is exposed—firm, fine, crisp, tender, and juicy, with a rich, delicious, and very dis- tinctive flavor. The trees are vigorous, hardy, and healthy. Three serious faults detract from its value as a commercial fruit: apple-scab fungus seriously disfigures fruit and foliage; the crop ripens unevenly; and the appl
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 33. Mcintosh. (XVa) and characteristic bloom. Well grown, each apple seems to have been turned out of the same mould—a sphere modified by a little oblateness. When the apples are cut, flesh of snowy whiteness rimmed and stained with red is exposed—firm, fine, crisp, tender, and juicy, with a rich, delicious, and very dis- tinctive flavor. The trees are vigorous, hardy, and healthy. Three serious faults detract from its value as a commercial fruit: apple-scab fungus seriously disfigures fruit and foliage; the crop ripens unevenly; and the apples sel- dom hang until sufficiently mature. The va- riety originated in Dundas County, Ontario, on the Mcintosh homestead, from which its distribution was begun about 1870. Tree vigorous, round or spreading, with numerous small, slender laterals. Fruit large, uniform in shape and size, round-oblate, regular ; stem short, stout, slender, usually not exserted, often with irregular protuberances; cavity large, acuminate, wide, broadly furrowed, often partly russeted; calyx small, closed or partly open; lobes short, narrow, acute; basin pubescent, small, narrow, abrupt, smooth or obscurely furrowed ; skin thin, tender, smooth, readily separating from the flesh, pale-yellow washed and deeply blushed with bright red and striped with carmine, highly-colored specimens dark red with the carmine stripes obscure, overspread with bloom ; dots white or yellow, small ; calyx-tube short, conical, with broad limb; stamens median; core abaxile; cells wide open ; core-lines meeting, carpels elliptical, smooth, con- cave ; seeds brown, large, acute; flesh white, sometimes veined with red, firm, fine, crisp, tender, very juicy, perfumed, sprightly subacid; very good to best ; Oc- tober to December or later. McMAHON. McMahon White. McMahon in quality is similar to Alexander, of which it is possiblj' a seedling, but does not equal it in any characters which contribute to making a com- mercial va
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