Identifier: annualreportoffr1902frui (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1902
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Subjects: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario Fruit-culture Fruit-culture
Publisher: Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, (Warcick Bros.
Contributing Library: Brock University
Digitizing Sponsor: Brock University - University of Toronto Libraries

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e-quarters ; form,obovate, regular and even ; color, dullbrownish green, yellowing as it ripenswith a deep brownish red cheek ; stem,half an inch in length, in a very smallcavity ; calyx, small, open, in a shallow basin. Flesh: White, very finegrained, melting and juicy ; flavor, honey-sweef,with delicate aroma. Quality : Dessert, best; cooking, good.Season : September to October. Value : 1st class for a special market ; but second class wlits small size. rich. spicy ere not known, on account of A very fine, large, showy pear,s, trifle later than Bartlett, largerin size, but not equal to it in qual-ity ; promising as a commercialwariety. Origin : France ? Tree : A thrifty, uprightgrower, productive. Fruit : Large, 4 inches by 2;;form, obovate, pynform, somewhatuneven and irregular ; skin, green-ish yellow, with patches of russet ;stem, Ij inches long, set in a shal-low, uneven, often one-sided•cavity ; calyx, open, in a broad,irregular, russeted basin. TRIUMPH. (Triomphe de Vienne).
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/ Section of Triumph. Flesh : Creamy white, veryjuicy ; flavor, rich, sweet and ex-cellent. Season ; September 15th to30th. Quality : Dessert very good ;cooking very good. Value : Market, home orforeign, 1st class. Triumph. PLuns ABUNDANCE. One of the best of the Japan plums for the home garden. It is early in season, beingripe about the middle of August, and maturing quite unevenly. To get its best flavor it shouldbe picked while still firm, and ripened indoors like a Bartlett pear ; it will color beautifullyand become very juicy, and the flavor will be sweet and rich. Origin : One of Luther Burbanks importations from Japan in 1884. Tree : Vigorous ; a six year old tree, at our Lake Huron fruit station, bore six 12-quartbaskets of fruit in 1901 ; class, Japanese. Fruit : Size l;.x2 inches ; form, roundish, narrowing towards the apex ; color, bright redon a yellowish ground with numerous red dots ; stalk, strong, ; of an inch long, inserted in anarrow, deep cavity ; suture, Shallow, d

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