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West. It is a good annual bearer, best on heavy soils, and in 

 many localities the most popular of this species, attributable 

 to its thick skin, and keeping qualities, enabling it to be taken 

 long distances, often to New Orleans and other Southern mar- 

 kets, but is hardly above second rate in quality. The tree is 

 of spreading growth, with rather downy shoots. Fruit, 

 medium to large, roundish, flattened, dull green, overspread 

 with brownish, yellow russet, occasionally a faint blush on the 

 sunny side ; flesh greenish white, moderately juicy, mild sub- 

 acid, good for market from January to June. Has been known 

 to keep a year. 



The English Eusset is supposed to be an American seedling, 

 was first disseminated on the Hudson River, is equally as long 

 a keeper as the above, of less acid and more pleasant flavor. 

 The growth of the tree is upright, with shoots of a lively 

 brown color. Fruit medium size, roundish, conical, or ovate, 

 light greenish yellow', mostly overspread with brownish russet, 

 in large exposed specimens wholly russeted, flesh yellowish, 

 white fine texture, rather firm, aromatic. Its profuse bearing, 

 and quality of keeping over a year, render it very profitable. 



The Golden Russet, an apple of foreign origin, and is exten- 

 sively planted in "Western New York, and resembles the English 

 Russet in size and general appearance, but is more tender and 

 crisp, and is not so long a keeper. Growth, spreading and 

 irregular, with many slender weeping branches ; has light- 

 colored, speckled shoots, by which it is easily known ; fruit 

 medium sized, roundish, usually a little oblong, sometimes 

 slightly flattened; surface at times wholly a thick russet, at 

 others a thin, broken russet on a greenish yellow skin, some- 

 times a tinge of red on the exposed side ; flesh greenish, flne- 

 grained, high-flavored, nearly " best, " keeps through winter. 



The English is distinguished from the Golden and Roxbury 

 by its straight, upright shoots, and from the Roxbury by its 

 less flat form, and less acid flavor, while the Golden may be 

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