A new variety, grown from seed of Rawle's Janet, by Martin Ingram, of
Greene county, Missouri. Tree productive, and the fruit especially
valued for its long keeping. Fruit medium, or below, roundish oblate,
orange yellow, mostly overspread with broken stripes of rich, warm red,
gray russet dots, and slight marblings. Stalk slender. Calyx small.
Flesh yellowish white, moderately juicy, crisp, mild subacid. Core above
medium. Seeds dark brown. February to June. (Hort.)
Remarks on the Ingram by members of the State Horticultural Society:
Mrs. A. Z. Moore: I speak of this as the "coming apple" in southern
Missouri. They are not very large; beautiful in color; have a tendency
to overbear and grow in clusters. Must be picked by hand; is free from
common diseases.
J. F. Maxey: I am greatly interested in it. Very late last spring, while
in Kansas City, I noticed a variety of apples that looked so fresh, with
stems as green as if just picked, in shape and color like large Janets.
They had come out of cold storage. I asked the name, and was told they
were Ingram. I was told they were grown in the vicinity of Garden City,
Kan. I wrote to Garden City, and received an answer from the grower,
saying this apple was well worthy of growing.
Mrs. A. Z. Moore: I have seen it kept until the following August.
G. P. Whiteker: I got twenty barrels of them from Mr. Rose in Kansas
City. I brought them here [Topeka] and retailed most of them, and got
six dollars per barrel for them. I do not think we found two bad apples
to the barrel. Most people thought them Janets. I believe it a
profitable tree to plant.
B. F. Smith: In collecting apples in Douglas county for the World's
Fair, we could not tell them from the Janet, except in size. It is
beautifully streaked, and the grower called it a variety of the Janet.