Fall Jenneting

Fall Jenneting.

Summer Jenneting.

Tree vigorous, and very productive.

Fruit large, oblate, slightly conic, almost ribbed, pale greenish yellow, with a blush. Flesh whitish, tender, juicy, brisk subacid. Good. September and October.

— A.J. Downing, The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America (1900)

FALL JENNETING.

REFERENCES. 1. Mag. Hort., 12:474. 1846. 2. Hovey, Ib., 13:161. 1847. fig. 3. Elliott, 1854:132. 4. Downing, 1857:213. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1862. 6. Warder, 1867:533. fig. 7. Thomas, 1875:498. 8. Lyon, Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1890:290. 9. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:239. 10. Budd-Hansen, 1903:80.

SYNONYMS. FALL GENETING (6). Fall Gennetting (3). FALL JENETTING (8). FALL JENNETING (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10). FALL JENNETTING (3, 9).

Fruit often large but variable in size, a considerable portion of the crop being undersized or otherwise unmarketable. It is of a green or yellowish color, shows bruises quite readily, does not stand shipping very well and is not a good keeper. It is very good for culinary uses and acceptable for dessert; being of light weight, it is less desirable than some other varieties for evaporating. The tree is an exceedingly strong grower and long-lived, eventually becoming very large, tall and spreading. It is hardy, healthy, comes into bearing rather young and is a reliable cropper, yielding moderately good to heavy crops biennially or nearly annually. There is apt to be considerable loss from premature dropping of the fruit. Not recommended for planting in New York.

Historical. It appears that this variety was brought into Western New York from Athens on the Hudson, about 1827 (1, 2). Elliott (3) in 1854 called it an old Connecticut variety. It has been grown more largely in portions of the Hudson valley and of Western New York than it has in other sections of the state but it has not been cultivated extensively in any locality. It is still listed by nurserymen (9) but in New York it is now seldom planted and is gradually going out of cultivation.

TREE.

Tree large, vigorous or very vigorous. Form spreading or somewhat roundish. Twigs moderately long, curved, moderately stout; internodes medium. Bark dark brown lightly streaked with gray scarf-skin; slightly pubescent. Lenticels scattering, medium size, oblong, slightly raised. Buds medium size, broad, plump, obtuse, free, pubescent.

FRUIT.

Fruit above medium to large. Form roundish oblate inclined to conic, slightly ribbed at the base; sides unequal. Stem medium to short, moderately thick. Cavity acuminate, deep, wide, rather symmetrical, with outspreading rays of russet. Calyx below medium to rather large, closed or somewhat open; lobes long, narrow, acute, reflexed. Basin rather small, shallow, narrow, somewhat furrowed and wrinkled. Skin thin, tough, smooth, pale greenish-yellow with faint brownish-red or bronze blush. Dots moderately numerous, rather inconspicuous, sometimes russet but more often whitish and submerged. Prevailing effect yellow. Calyx tube rather long, narrow funnel-shape. Stamens median to basal. Core small, axile to somewhat abaxile; cells symmetrical, closed; core lines clasping. Carpels somewhat roundish to broadly ovate. Seeds light brown, rather small, moderately narrow, plump, acute. Flesh tinged with yellow, moderately firm, fine, crisp, tender, juicy, sprightly, subacid, good. Season late September to December.

— S.A. Beach, The Apples of New York, Vol. 2 (1905)

Fall Jenneting............. L | fl | gy | G | m | F | 3* | 3* | 2*

— Granville Lowther (ed.), Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture (1914)

Fall Jenneting. Rather large, oblate, greenish-yellow; sub-acid, pleasant—cooking. November. A great bearer.

— John J. Thomas, The American Fruit Culturist (1903)