. American horticultural manual .. . Newtown Spitzenburg. 136 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. russet; stem short; basin wide, smooth, medium deep; calyx small,closed. Core half open; cells wide open, obovate; tube conical;stamens median; seeds manj, angular; flesh yellow, firm, crisp,tender, juicy, rich, sprightly aromatic flavor, scarcely subacid, to February. Nickajack.—Origin, Georgia; widely distributed in the South andknown under many synonyms; it reproduces itself quite closely fromseed; tree upright, spreading, large, very Nickajack. Fruit large, roundish to roundish obla
. American horticultural manual .. . Newtown Spitzenburg. 136 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. russet; stem short; basin wide, smooth, medium deep; calyx small,closed. Core half open; cells wide open, obovate; tube conical;stamens median; seeds manj, angular; flesh yellow, firm, crisp,tender, juicy, rich, sprightly aromatic flavor, scarcely subacid, to February. Nickajack.—Origin, Georgia; widely distributed in the South andknown under many synonyms; it reproduces itself quite closely fromseed; tree upright, spreading, large, very Nickajack. Fruit large, roundish to roundish oblate, slightly conic, sometimesoblique; surface yellowish, striped, shaded, and splashed with twoshades of red and with a grayish appearance, as if covered with a thinbloom; dots man}, large, areole; cavity large, acute, medium deep,yellow and russet; stem short; basin medium, slightlj corrugated;caljx partially open. Core smaU, closed; seeds many, large, plump;flesh yellowish, compact, moderately tender and juicy, negative sub-acid, good. Late winter. Nixonite {Ozark Mammoth).—Originated on the farm of , near Hopewell, Mo., some fifty or seventy-live years ago. Itcame up from seed alongside of an old lead mine. Tree not an earlybearer but productive with age. Much grown in southeastern Missouri. THE APPLE. 137 Fruit large to vcr_y large, roundish, truncated, nearly regularsometimes unequal; surface clear rich yellow, overlaiil «ith whitisli;dots obscure, numerous, ^yllite, minute, suffused, a few large russetdots; cavity deep,
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