Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1904 . Flesh : Pure white ; texture, ten-der, fine, crisp, breaking, juicy,with a brisk, sub-acid flavor. Season : October to February ; atits best in October and November. Quality : Dessert, best ; cooking,good. Value : Home market, very good ;export, fair. Section of Scarlet Pippin. 14 THE REPORT OF THE No. 17 SHIAWASSEE. (ShiawRFPee Beauty.) Perhaps the finestvariety of the Fameusetype, next to the Fam-euse itself, and muchless subject to scabthan that variety. Afancy variety for des-sert purposes. Origin: In Shia-wassee County, Mi
Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1904 . Flesh : Pure white ; texture, ten-der, fine, crisp, breaking, juicy,with a brisk, sub-acid flavor. Season : October to February ; atits best in October and November. Quality : Dessert, best ; cooking,good. Value : Home market, very good ;export, fair. Section of Scarlet Pippin. 14 THE REPORT OF THE No. 17 SHIAWASSEE. (ShiawRFPee Beauty.) Perhaps the finestvariety of the Fameusetype, next to the Fam-euse itself, and muchless subject to scabthan that variety. Afancy variety for des-sert purposes. Origin: In Shia-wassee County, Michi-gan, supposed to be aseedling of Fameuse. Tree : hardy ; vig-orous ; upright; pro-ductive alternateyears. Fruit: Size large,2^x3^ inches ; formdecidely oblate ; coloryellowish ground,almost entirely cover-ed with stripes, splash-ings and mottlings ofdark crimson, and a few large prominent yellowish dots ; stem slender, f of an inch long, set in a broad deep cavity ; calyx usually closed, in a large deep Shiawassee Beauty Flesh : Color verywhite ; texture firm,very crisp, juicy, finegrained; flavor excel-lent. Season :to January. October Quality: Cooking,fair; dessert verygood. Value : Home orforeign market verypromising. Adaptation : Suc-ceeds well at ourSimcoe station.
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