164 ORCHARDS. 



popular fruits to be found for market and for general cultiva- 

 tion. It is a highly valuable apple for the table or kitchen 

 and thrives well on most soils, especially on those that are 

 light and sandy, it being a native of the banks of the Dela- 

 ware. Fruit, medium size, round, greenish yellow, striped 

 with red, tender, juicy and pleasant. Tree vigorous, erect, 

 and very productive ; and is one of the best late Fall or early 

 Winter apples for the Piedmont and Valley Districts of Vir- 

 ginia and West Virginia, and is largely cultivated throughout 

 the Western States. 



Mighy Sweet. Synonyms, Trumbull Sweet, Fenton Sweet. 

 Fruity size medium or above ; form roundish, conical, flatten- 

 ed at the ends, often one side enlarged or slightly oblique, 

 color, pale yellow, with a faint tinge of red in the sun, and a 

 few small, obscure, suffused reddish dots; flesh white, very 

 tender, juicy, delicate, rich, sweet: season October to Decem- 

 ber. Originated in Trumbull county, Ohio. 



Remarks. — This is comparatively a new variety, a very 

 hardy tree, productive, and one of the most delicate of all the 

 sweet apples. In the orchard, it makes a round, regular open 

 head, and if well cultivated and manured when it is needed, 

 it will bear annually and abundantly. It is especially suited 

 to table use — too tender for shipment. 



Maiden 8 Blush. A remarkably beautiful apple, a native 

 of New Jersey, and first described by Coxe. It begins to 

 ripen about the last of August, and continues until the last of 

 October. It has all the beauty of color of the pretty little 

 Lady Apple, and is much cultivated and admired both for the 

 table and for cooking. It is also very highly esteemed for 

 drying. Fruit medium size, flat and quite smooth and fair ; 

 skin thin, clear lemon yellow, with a colored cheek, some- 

 times delicately tinged like a blush, and in others with a bril- 

 liant red ; flesh white, tender, sprightl}^, Avith a pleasant sub- 

 acid flavor. This variety forms a handsome, rapid growing 

 tree, with a fine spreading head, and bears large crops." 



WINTER VARIETIES. 



G-rimes' G-olden. (Grimes' Golden Pippin.) An apple of the 

 highest quality, nearly equal to the Albemarle Pippin, medium 



