SUB-SECTION 3.—RUSSET.
American Golden Russet.
BULLOCK'S PIPPIN, ETC.
Fig. 159.—AMERICAN GOLDEN RUSSET.
This delicious table apple is a universal favorite with all who can appreciate delicacy of flavor and fineness of flesh in an apple, and yet it is not a profitable variety for orchard planting, because the fruit is very apt to be imperfect. The best I have seen were from the South, and sandstone soils.
Tree vigorous, upright, round-headed, small; Foliage large, healthy.
Fruit small to medium, round-conic, regular when perfect; Surface smooth, yellow, covered with thin russet, sometimes faintly blushed; Dots minute.
Basin shallow, regular; Eye small, closed.