Part 3: Soulard Crab to Hougards Seedling
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Soulard Crab
Size, 3; form, smooth oblate; color, yellowish green, becoming yellow by keeping; flesh, firm, fine grained nearly white; flavor, acid. acrid, somewhat better than native crab Pyrus coronaria L.
-J.S.H.
Red Siberian
Small; form, roundish; color, clear straw yellow; stem, long slender, cavity medium; calyx, very small; basin, broad shallow; flesh, yellow; flavor, mild acid, crabby.
-J.S.H.
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Size medium; form, round; color, yellow and red stripped; flesh, greenish yellow, fine, firm, pleasant acid; a long keeper; Seedling by A. Hacklander, Blue Earth City, Minn.
-J.S.H.
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Size medium; form, flat round angular; color, red; flesh, fine pleasant sub-acid sweet; season winter; from Blue Earth City.
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Size medium; form, oblate angular; color, yellow and red; stripped and thickly spattered with gray dots; flavor sweet; season October.
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Seedling
Size large; form, round tapering toward the eye; color, yellow ground stripped and shaded red, dotted with gray specks; stem, long slender elastic; core, medium closed; cavity regular medium deep, sometimes russeted at bottom; calyx, closed in a medium, slightly furrowed basin; flesh, light yellow nearly juice; flavor mild acid; season, Sept-October; originated in Houston Co., Minn.
Crimson Beauty
Size medium; form, long oval conic; color, yellow covered with bright red; stem, long slender; cavity, narrow; calyx, long closed; basin, flat wrinkled; flesh, yellow; flavor sweet good; season, late August to September 10th. Tree upright symmetrical, hardy and a prodigious bearer on alternate years; origin unknown.
-J.S.H.
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Size, large; form, round oval; color, yellow mostly covered with stripes of light and bright red; stems very long, slender in a deep funnel shaped cavity; calyx, small in a deep ridged basin; core small closed; flesh, yellow juice; flavor, sub-acid, sweet, good; season, October, from J.H. Woodburn, Sterling, Ill.
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Size, large; form, flat round angular; color, yellow and red, stripped and splashed and very many russet dots; stem, long, slender in a wide medium deep slightly russeted cavity; calyx large; basin broad shallow deeply furrowed; flesh, nearly white fine; flavor pleasant acid; From J. H. Woodburn, Ill.
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Size 5; form, flattish round; color, greenish yellow; stripped with red and splashed silver gray and shows finest on sun side; stem, short; cavity broad green and gray at bottom; calyx, open, basin, broad corrugated; flesh, yellow fine, firm; sprightly acid. Tree was procured for Martha Crab.
Seedling of Sidney Corps
Size, 4; form, ro