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sub-acid, juicy, delicate, sprightly flavor ; grown upon alluvial soils, the 

 flesh becomes more spongy and loses much of its i^e flavor. — Core, rather 

 large. — Seeds, abundant, rich, brownish, red, ovate, pyriform. — Season, 

 November to February. 



APPLES. — Wkstfield Seek-no-farther. 



Synonyms. — Connecticut Seek-no-farther — Xew England Seelc-no-'^^ 

 farther — Red Winter Pearmain — of some Western growers. 



This old and popular fruit deserves a place in every collection. Grown 

 in rich alluvial soils of the South, it does not keep as long as when 

 grown on poorer soils at the North ; but it loses none of its peculiar 

 flavor or good qualities as a table fruit. 



Size, medium. — Form, regular, roundish, conical, broadest at the base 

 or stem end. — Color, light yellow ground, sunny side striped and splash- 

 ed with red ; small russet dots shaded around with light russet yellow ; 

 often considerable of russet about both stem and calyx ; grown South, 

 it is very much russetted, and about the stem the russet has appearance 

 of rich bronze ; progressing northward, it gradually loses its russet, until 

 on light, sandy soils in Michigan, it becomes a pale yellow ground, with 

 stripes and splashes of clear red and minute dots. — Stem, long and 

 slender. — Cavity, open and regular. — Calyx, usually small, closed, some- 



