. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 54 RED CANADA RHODE ISLAND GREENING trachan is a Russian apple introduced into America in 1835, and has long been grown in all of the apple regions of America. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense. Fruit medium to large, not uniform in siw or shape, round- ohlate, conical, ribhed, sides uneciual ; stem slender, l>racti'd ; cavity acute, deep, broad, often russeted with greenish-russcti usually sj-mmetrical, sometimes lippeil; Ciilyx large, open, or closed ; lobes loiitf, broad; nasin shallow, narrow, obtuse, wrinkled ; skin thin,
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. 54 RED CANADA RHODE ISLAND GREENING trachan is a Russian apple introduced into America in 1835, and has long been grown in all of the apple regions of America. Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense. Fruit medium to large, not uniform in siw or shape, round- ohlate, conical, ribhed, sides uneciual ; stem slender, l>racti'd ; cavity acute, deep, broad, often russeted with greenish-russcti usually sj-mmetrical, sometimes lippeil; Ciilyx large, open, or closed ; lobes loiitf, broad; nasin shallow, narrow, obtuse, wrinkled ; skin thin, tender, smooth, pale yellow often overspread with light and dark red, spla'shed and irregularly striped with <leep crimson or carmine and covered with heavy bloom ; dots numerous, wliite ; calyx-tube long, funnel-form ; stamens me<liaii ; core small, abaxile ; cells closed or open; core- lines clasping ; carjjels broadly ovate, tufted ; seeds small, wide, plump, obtuse ; tlesh white often tinged with red, fine, crisp, tender, juicy, brisk subacid, aromatic, some- times astringent; good to very good; late July to September. RED CANADA. Fig. 46. Canada Red- !<tnak. Rid Winter. Steele's Red. Were the trees as satisfactory as the fruit. Red Canada would take high rank among the commercial apples of the country. The apples are char- acterized by firm, crisp, fine-grained, juicy, aromatic, richly flavored flesh; they are me-. 46. Red Canada. (XVa) dium to large, shapely, uniform in size and shape, and colored a beautiful fine, deep red, striped with deeper red on a background of j'ellow, the whole surface being conspicuously marked with large fawn-colored dots. The trees, however, signally fail; they are precari- ously hardy, lack in vigor, subject to most of the troubles that apple flesh is heir to, fastidi- ous as to soils, and seldom sure or annual bearers. Red Canada probably originated in New England a hundred or more years ago, and has been most largely planted in New
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