. The fruits of Ontario. Fruit-culture. A general favorite as a tall cooking apple, and possessing a fairly good flavor as a dessert apple. It was at one time planted very freely, but of late years it has been discarded because of its liability to the apple scab. Origin : America, probably from seed of Holland Pippin. Tree : habit stout, vigorous, spreading; head round; long lived, some trees in Niagara district are now over 100 years of age ; fairly productive. Fhuit : large ; form roundish, sometimes obscurely ribbed; skin yellow, often with red cheek and a few small grey dots; stalk half to
. The fruits of Ontario. Fruit-culture. A general favorite as a tall cooking apple, and possessing a fairly good flavor as a dessert apple. It was at one time planted very freely, but of late years it has been discarded because of its liability to the apple scab. Origin : America, probably from seed of Holland Pippin. Tree : habit stout, vigorous, spreading; head round; long lived, some trees in Niagara district are now over 100 years of age ; fairly productive. Fhuit : large ; form roundish, sometimes obscurely ribbed; skin yellow, often with red cheek and a few small grey dots; stalk half to three quarters of an inch long, set in a small, moderately deep Fall Pii'i'lN. cavity; calyx small, open in a small, moder- ately deep basin. Flesh : greenish white ; texture tender, mellow, and fairly juicy ; flavor brisk, pleasant, aromatic. Quality : dessert fair ; cooking best. Value : home mar- ket first class, foreign market second class. Season : November and December. Adaptation : hardy in the best apple dis- tricts, but very subject to Section of Fall Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture. Toronto : printed by L. K. Cameron
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