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with a lively acid juice; as excellent for dessert as for cooking, 

 and its presence in orchard or garden, for kitchen or table use, 

 cannot be dispensed Avith. Keeps well till March or April, 

 Growth strong, of a broad-spreading habit, healthy, medium- 

 sized shoots, broad leaves ; a great and constant annual bearer 

 in nearly all soils and situations, and is more generally known 

 and esteemed than any other winter sort ; single trees yield- 

 ing forty bushels of fair fruit in favorable years, and neglected 

 orchards 200 bushels per acre. Like the Fall Pippin, which it 

 resemVjles in wood and leaves, and all trees of the same vigor- 

 ous habit, it is a gross feeder, and should be supplied with 

 fertilizers by turning in heavy crops of clover or dressings of 

 compost, where there is any deficiency in the soil. 



Fine throughout the Northern States. Is said to be a native 

 of New Jersey, once known as the Jersey Greening ; was first 

 widely distributed in Rhode Island and adjacent region. 



Golden Rnsset — Medium size, roundish-conical, a little 

 oblong, flattened at stem end, nearly regular; skin rough and 

 thick, sometimes wholly a dull russet, and at others a thiu 

 broken russet on a greenish-yellow ground, rarely with a tinge 

 of red on the exposed side ; flesh greenish, fine grained, firm, 

 crisp, juicy and high-flavored, nearly "best." Season, Novem- 

 ber to May. Popular and extensively grown in the Genesee 

 Valley, where it is known as the Golden Eusset of Western 

 New York, and considered here, from its productiveness and 

 superior keeping and eating qualities, the most valuable of all 

 the Russets. 



Tree hardy, a fine grower, spreading and irregular, with 

 many slender weeping branches ; has light-colored, speckled 

 shoots, by which it is easily known ; bears large crops, and 

 ranks among the first as a ])rofitable market variety. Of 

 English origin. 



Northern Spy — Large, roundish-conical, often flattened, 

 sometimes ribbed, smooth, pale yellow mostly covered with 

 glossy red, and distinct stripes of purplish crimson, some 

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