. American horticultural manual .. . Hesper Blu^h Crab. few russet dots; cavity regular, russeted; stem long; basin shallow,wrinkled; calyx closed. (!ore closed or half open; flesh yellowishwhite, pleasant subacid, good for table or eulinarj use, November. Hyslop.—An old and widely known variety. Tree of stronggrowth, rather spreading. Wood light-colored, a little do\y. Itslate season and showy appearance makes it valuable for market. Fruit large, produced in , roundish, tapering regular,sometimes obscurely angular; surface smooth,, neailv or entirelycovered with very dark solid red,
. American horticultural manual .. . Hesper Blu^h Crab. few russet dots; cavity regular, russeted; stem long; basin shallow,wrinkled; calyx closed. (!ore closed or half open; flesh yellowishwhite, pleasant subacid, good for table or eulinarj use, November. Hyslop.—An old and widely known variety. Tree of stronggrowth, rather spreading. Wood light-colored, a little do\y. Itslate season and showy appearance makes it valuable for market. Fruit large, produced in , roundish, tapering regular,sometimes obscurely angular; surface smooth,, neailv or entirelycovered with very dark solid red, with heavy blue bloom, a beautiful ;. 221 fruit; dots minute, yellow, ohsciu-e, many; cavity (il)tusp, regular;stem long;, slender; hasin flat, ; calyx small, closed;segments divergent. Core closed; tube conical; stamens median^. Hyslop Crab. flesh yellow, acid; good for culinary use and for cider. SeptemliertoNovember. Island Gem.—Origin, town of Grand Isle, (Iraiid Isle Countv,Vermont. Fruit medium, round, slightly oblate, red, with yellow ground;flesh yellow, mild, subacid, hardly good; use cider and jelly. Season,October (in Cluimplain \allev). Jumbo.—Origin, Newport, AVrmont. Probalily a hybrid. Fruit very large, oblong; surface bright red over yellow groimd;flavor a mild acid; cjuality best to very best for flessert and and Decemljer. Kentucky Mammoth.—Supposed origin Kentucky, as i( \vasreceived about thirty years ago under the above name from CharlesDowning by B. A. Mathews, Knoxville, Iowa. Evidently a nitivecrab hybrid (Pyrus Imrcnsis x /- d/o/((.s). Fruit much like the Mercer, Init lighter green and more u. for culinary use as a substitute lor ([uinces. Lyman Prolific.—Originated by il. M. Lyuuui, Excelsior, .Minnesota,about thirty-live years ago. 222 SYSTEMAT
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