Fruit - size large, form roundish, often oblate, slightly inclining to conic, sides sometimes unequal, slightly angular; skin smooth; color, greenish yellow, ground mostly overspread, striped and splashed with rich deep red, and with many light russet grey dots, neither large nor small; stalk, short; cavity, deep, open, regular; smooth, at times a little russetty green; calyx, large, with stiff, short, lateral projecting segments; basin, broad, open and rather deep; flesh, greenish yellowish, with pale pea green marblings, crisp breaking, juicy, mild, sub-acid, rich aroma; core, small, seeds long pointed. Season, November and December. Originated in Northumberland County, Pa.

Fig. 13. - Major Apple.

As a showy market fruit, this apple would always command a ready sale; and as a table fruit, it is rich, mild and pleasant to the taste. We think it deserves attention from fruit growers, beyond what it has thus far received.

Major Apple #1

I think that zealous horticulturist Dr. Brinckle introduced and first described this fruit in his record of life's labors, and I am glad to see it again brought to notice. Amid the numbers of new fruits yearly introduced, there are few that ever get beyond their first introduction, and mainly, I think, because they do not deserve it; but there is an occasional variety heralded that deserves full and fair trial, and from what I have seen of it the Major is one of them.