. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 64. Yellow Bellflower. {XV2) 65. Yellow Transparent. (X^^) veiy susceptible to injury by the apple-scab fungus. The apples do not stand storage well, and deteriorate quickly when brought from low temperatures. The trees are vigorous, healthy, hardy, long-lived, and productive in warm, well-drained, fertile soils. The variety has strong local attachments, and, though widely distributed, is now being planted in but few localities. The most suitable regions for its culture are the coast valleys of California. In 1817, Coxe reported that the orig
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 64. Yellow Bellflower. {XV2) 65. Yellow Transparent. (X^^) veiy susceptible to injury by the apple-scab fungus. The apples do not stand storage well, and deteriorate quickly when brought from low temperatures. The trees are vigorous, healthy, hardy, long-lived, and productive in warm, well-drained, fertile soils. The variety has strong local attachments, and, though widely distributed, is now being planted in but few localities. The most suitable regions for its culture are the coast valleys of California. In 1817, Coxe reported that the original tree wa^ still standing near Crosswicks, New Jersey. Tree medium to large, vigorous, upright-spreading, laterals drooping. Fruit large or very large, round- oblong, oblong-conic, or ovate, irregularly elliptical, ribbed, often with prominent ridges at the apex, sides usually unequal ; stem long, slender ; cavity large, acute, deep, wide, furrowed, sometimes compressed, sometimes lipped, usually with outspreading broken rays of brownish-red in the sun which in higlily-colored speci- mens deepens to a blush ; calyx below medium to above, closed or partly so ; lobes narrow, acuminate, pubescent; basin small, oblique, abrupt, narrow, shallow to rather deep, distinctly ridged and wrinkled ; skin smooth, bright, pale lemon-yellow varying to whitish in the shade and often with a shade of brownish-red in the sun which in highly-colored specimens deepens to a pinkish-red blush; dots white or russet, numerous and small toward the basin, large, irregular and scattering toward the cavity ; prevailing effect bright yellow; calyx-tube elongated funnel-shape, sometimes extending to the core; stamens median ; core large, long, remark- ably abaxile; cells unsymmetrical, wide open or partly closed ; core-lines clasping ; carpels long, narrow, round- obovate, concave, much tufted ; seeds large, long, obtuse ; flesh yellow, firm, crisp, fine-grained, tender, juicy, aromatic; very good; Octobe
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