ANNUAL MEETING. 



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WINTER— 

 Striped with red. 

 Round, 

 Larue. 

 Cavity large or deep. 

 Stein short, 



Stem long, calyx closed, dots numerous. 

 Calyx closed, large, clots minute, 

 Cavity small, calyx large, 



Calyx small, 

 Flesh coarse, yellow, 

 Medium, 

 Stem long, basin deep, 

 Basin small, calyx large, 

 Calyx small, 

 Stem short, calyx and cavity small, 

 Calyx large, 

 Oblong, 

 Large, regular, 

 Medium, irregular. 

 Not striped nor russeted. 

 Flat, greenish yellow and dull red, 



Pale yellow, 

 Round, 

 Large, llesh yellow 

 Flesh white. 



Stem long, skin yellow, eye small, 



Skin green, eye large, 

 Stem short, core round, closed. 

 Core large, open, 

 Medium. 

 Flesh yellow, eye open, 



Eye closed. 

 Flesh white, 

 Stem long, skin yellow, eye small. 



Skin green, eye large, 

 Stem short, basin deep, 

 Basin shallow, 

 Oblong, 



Maverack's Sweet, 209 

 .Phillips' Sweet, 210 

 Bentley's Sweet, 209 

 Hartford Sweet, 209 

 Bailey's Sweet, 209 

 Hockett's Sweet, 209 



Phillips' Sweet, 210 



"Wing Sweeting, 211 



Sweet Pearmain, 210 



Ladies' Sweet, 209 



Sweet liomanite, 210 



Ramsdell's Sweet, 210 

 Sweet Vandevere, 210 



Leicester's Sweet, 211 

 London Sweet, 211 



Danvers Winter Sweet, 211 



Talman Sweet, 212 



Green Sweet, 211 



Broadwell, 211 



Winter Sweet Paradise, 212 



Camak's Sweet, 211 

 Danvers Winter Sweet, 211 



Danvers Winter Sweet, 212 



Green Sweet, 211 



Hijjbv's Sweet, 211 



Wells' Sweet, 212 



Honey Greening, 211 



As a matter of record find convenience, I have begun to describe our apples 

 by their flowers. This should be added to any previous description to make it 

 complete. The increasing numbers of our apples make it necessary to employ 

 all the good characters possible. The value of the flowers as a means of de- 

 scribing apples was pointed out two years ago at the Adrian meeting. Please 

 bear in mind that the above key to the description of our apples is only a par- 

 tial one. Though complete in regard to sweet apples in Thomas' work, as far 

 as it goes, yet it will be of little value until all the apples are placed in a similar 

 key, and the key printed for use. If time and strength can be spared, such a 

 work will be completed at no distant day. Since writing the above I have seen 

 a new classification of apples, proposed by Eobert Hogg, in the Gardener's 

 Chronicle of March 18, 1876, page 362. 



Dr. Hogg says he has thoroughly tested the value and permanence of the 

 characters upon which his classification is based, by the examination of fruits 

 from different parts of the country, from different soils and climates, and also 

 at different seasons of the year. He adds, "I must remark, however, that in 

 this, as in every other classification of natural objects, the characters are not 

 always constant, and there are varieties which refuse to submit to any scheme of 

 man's devising. Nature refuses to be bound, and we must adapt our ideas to 

 her laws. In every system it is so, as the botanist well knows. 



