Stanard

Stanard.

From Erie County, New York, this fruit has made its way westward, by the Lakes, having been distributed by Col. Hodge, of Buffalo, and brought to the notice of his western friends by Hon. M. L. Dunlap, of Champaign, Illinois, who esteems it very highly. I quote from his account of it:

"This proves one of our most profitable winter apples; the tree bears young and constantly, but fuller on alternate years; fruit large and showy, shoots large and downy; buds prominent, fruit buds large, and the earliest in the orchard to swell; but they do not open as soon as others. Tree spreading, trunk generally crooked." Very hardy.

Fruit large, roundish, conical, ribbed, angular; Surface smooth, yellowish-green, somewhat red, mixed and striped indistinctly; Dots numerous, minute, white.

Basin medium, folded and plaited; Eye large, closed; Segments long.

Cavity wide, acute, wavy, green; Stem medium to long.

Core small, globular, regular, closed or open; Seeds numerous, brown, angular; Flesh yellow, breaking, rather coarse, tender; Flavor acid to sub-acid, rich; Quality good; Use, market and table; Season, November to February.

— John A. Warder, American Pomology: Apples (1867)

Stanard. Stanard's Seedling.

An Apple extensively disseminated in Illinois and West, from Colonel B. Hodge, through "The Grove" nurseries. The tree is extremely hardy, enduring uninjured the most severe changes of the prairies. It is a crooked, spreading, irregular, but rapid grower; a young, abundant, and annual bearer. Young wood reddish brown, downy.

Fruit medium to large, roundish oblate, slightly conical, dull green, changing to yellow at maturity, splashed and striped with red, large russet specks. Stalk in a deep cavity. Calyx closed. Flesh yellowish white, rather coarse, very juicy, rather rich subacid. Very good. December to March. Superior for cooking.

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

STANARD.

REFERENCES. 1. N. Y. Agr. Soc. Trans., 1848:22, 276. 2. Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 3:78. 1851. 3. Elliott, 1854:158. 4. Warder, 1867:544. fig. 5. Downing, 1869:359. 6. Fitz, 1872:121. 7. Thomas, 1875:512. 8. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:250. 9. Powell and Fulton, U. S. B. P. I. Bul., 48:56. 1903. 10. Beach and Clark, N. Y. Sta. Bul., 248:144. 1904.

SYNONYMS. Stanard's Seedling (3, 5). STANNARD (8). STANNARD'S SEEDLING (2).

Stanard is a good apple but other varieties of its season are superior to it for either home use or commercial purposes. The fruit is of good marketable size and fairly attractive in general appearance but as grown at this Station it does not develop as bright red color as either Baldwin or Northern Spy and is decidedly inferior to either of these varieties in the texture, flavor and quality of its flesh. Its season extends to January but some portion of the fruit may be kept till spring. Its ordinary commercial limit is October or in cold storage March or April (10). The tree is rather vigorous, comes into bearing early and is an annual bearer, alternating heavy with light crops. It is not recommended for planting in New York.

Historical. In 1848 Stanard was exhibited before the New York Agricultural Society as a new seedling by Benjamin Hodge, Jr., of Buffalo, by whom it was afterwards introduced (1). It has been disseminated in portions of the Middle West (4, 5, 8) but it has not won the favor of New York fruit growers and remains practically unknown in this state.

TREE.

Tree moderately vigorous; branches short, stout, curved. Form spreading, open. Twigs generally short, somewhat curved, rather stout; internodes medium to very short. Bark dark reddish-brown mingled with olive-green, partly streaked with thin scarf-skin, heavily pubescent. Lenticels scattering, small to medium, often elongated, usually not raised. Buds prominent, large, broad, plump, obtuse to acute, free or nearly so, quite pubescent.

FRUIT.

Fruit large to above medium, somewhat variable in size. Form oblate conic to roundish conic, wide and flat at the base, regular or obscurely ribbed;

— S.A. Beach, The Apples of New York, Vol. 1 (1905)

Stanard, Stanard's Seedling. From Erie Co., N. Y. Tree, productive. Fruit, large, roundish, yellow, overspread with red ; stem, short ; cavity, open ; calyx, closed ; basin ribbed ; core, small ; seeds, ovate pointed ; flesh, yellowish, coarse, juicy, acid ; not quite "very good." November to February.

— F.R. Elliott, The Western Fruit Book (1865)

Stanard. Large, roundish, yellow and red; rather coarse, sub-acid. December. Erie County, N. Y.

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