Part 2: Daisy to Fall Pippin
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Daisy
Size 4 to 5; form, smooth round oblate; color, clear waxen yellow with bright deep blush cheek with many minute light gray dots showing through the color; stem, medium in a broad smooth regular cavity; calyx, closed in a medium broad corrugated basin; flesh, white, tender juicy; flavor, pleasant sub acid very good, Season Oct. to Jan. Origin Worthington, Minn. Tree upright vigorous grower.
-J.S.H.
Walbridge
Size, 5; form, round oblate tapering towards the eye; skin, smooth glossy yellowish green striped and splashed red with few whitish dots; stem, medium slender; cavity, regular, medium, slightly russeted at bottom; calyx small closed in a shallow plain basin; core medium half open; seeds small chestnut brown; flesh, greenish white, fine, juicy; flavor sprightly sub-acid; season Jan to March. The tree when young is a vigorous grower; foliage medium and with the fruit is frequently subject to scab, with age it becomes an enormous bearer on alternate years, The fruit is best for home use, but often too small for market. The tree is not hardy enough for profitable growing in Minnesota.
-J.S.H.
Rawle’s Jannette
Size 4 to 5; form, roundish conical flat at base varying to flat conical; color, pale yellowish green mostly overspread striped and stained with dull red and a blue or grayish shade appearing like bloom and small gray dots that show most when fruit is well colored; stem, rather long; cavity, wide, regular, rather deep; calyx, nearly closed; basin, open regular medium deep; flesh, greenish yellow, tender; flavor sub-acid. The tree is not regarded hardy. It is an early and heavy bearer and seldom lives to produce more than two crops in southern Minnesota. Season Jan to April.
-J.S.H.
Red Queen
Size 6; form, round conical oblique; color greenish yellow with blush in light stripes and splashes in sun and grayish dots in the skin; stem, short; cavity, small, shallow with brown russet extending wall out in base or fruit; calyx, large open; basin abrupt deep furrowed; core, partly open; flesh white half fine, tender, juicy; flavor, acid; season, winter; origin Russia.
-J.S.H.
Golden Ball
Size 4 to 5; form, round; color, deep yellow and thickly sprinkled with light grayish dots; stem, short; cavity, medium considerably plaited; flesh yellow, tender; flavor, mild sub-acid; season late fall.
-J.S.H.
Scotts Winter
Size 4; form, roundish slightly angular; color, a greenish yellow ground mostly covered with red in stripes and marblings; stem, medium in a rather deep broadly, russeted cavity; basin, rather large irregular wrinkled; flesh, yellow fine, juicy, acid slightly sub acid flavor; core, small