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Show Coe Suggests Use Of Summer Apples Midseason varieties of apples arei too litUe known by Utah consumers who after the popular 1 Red Astrachan and Yellow Transparent Trans-parent early summer apples are gone fail to use the midseason apples which are now available, Francis M. Coe, research associ. ate professor of horticulture, reports. re-ports. I The Wealthy apple, leading commercial com-mercial cooking and desert apple ap-ple of the late summer and early fall sea'son, is excellent for sauce, pie and jelly apple, Pro- : fessor Coe said. Wealthy was 1 originated in Minnesota from seed of the Cherry Crab in 1860 : and because of superior hardi- c ness is widely grown in northern great plains district and in the '' colder valleys of Utah. ' A large sweet crabapple for fresh eating, pickled or spiced, in jelly and other culinary uses is the Whitney Crab apple which is so little known that it fails to sell on markets even when offered of-fered at a low price. Professor Coe explained these sweet crabs are now available on local markets mar-kets at prices which make them bargains in good fruit eating and cooking. I One of the most promising new early apples to be introduced is the early Mcintosh, produced from York Agricultural Experiment station sta-tion at Geneva. The new variety is intermediate between both parents; it. follows Transparent in season but the fruit resembles Mcintosh. The variety makes fancy dessert and is a good apple ap-ple ' for local market and home use. it is now on Utah markets in limited supply. The Red Gravesteln apple is rarely grown in Utah although it holds a command position on commercial markets in California where several million bushels are grown for shipment. The apples are prized for cooking being excellent ex-cellent for baking, sauce or pies according to Professor Coe. Red Gravestein, a solid colored bud-sport bud-sport of the older variety which was imported to the United States is being grown in the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural experiment station test orchard at Hurricane, Utah. The new variety should be superior to the old striped Gravenstein because of its more attractive color, the professor stated. . The common yellow blushed jelly jel-ly crab of the summer season so highly prized for jelly and pickl. mg is the Transcendant crab, al, though it is seldom rnrrvH ed in Utah. These crabapples make I highly flavored jelly, but are excelled ex-celled by Whitney crabs for pickled pickl-ed or spiced apples. A new early, dessert apple in Utah, Wilson Jane, a large strawberry straw-berry or June type apple of high quality, was Imported to Utah from Iowa in 1934 and this year bears a heavy crop on scions worked on an Early Red Bird tree m the campus orchard at Logan. It appears to be a promising prom-ising local market and home apple ap-ple to follow Red June in sea-! sea-! son. The apples are sweet, firm and juicy, and meet with a ready market demand, Professor Coe concluded. |