ORCHARDS. 171 



an old seedling orchard at Pleasant Valley, Albemarle co., Va. 

 Description. — Fruit, medium size, roundish, skin very ten- 

 der, yellowish white, sometimes a blush ; surface smooth, 

 flesh white, very tender, crisp, juicy, with a brisk, spicy aro- 

 matic flavor ; sweetish, slightly acid, very fine ; tree rather 

 large, irregular, great bearer; matuies early in August ; use, 

 eating or dessert and cooking. 



OTHER NEW VARIETIES. 



^Oliio Nonpareil^ (or Myers' Nonpareil. This is a noble 

 fruit ; its early history is involved iu some obscurity. In the 

 fourteenth report of the Ohio Pomolc^gical Society, 1868, the 

 following account is given : " Our fellow-member, S. B. 

 Marshall of Missillon, Ohio, obtained scions from Wm. Myers, 

 of New Lisbon, about 1840. since which time he has propaga- 

 ted, distributed and planted the trees, and exhibited the fruit 

 upon various occasions, and to him we are indebted for having 

 introduced this fine Autum or early Winter fruit to our no- 

 tice. From Mr. Myers he learned that a tree of this variety 

 had fruited for eighteen or twenty years in his orchard ; from 

 its excellence he had supposed it to be a grafted fruit, but as 

 the party from whom he had purchased the property had left 

 the country, he had never ascertained wdience the trees were 

 procured. 



This fine apple has been in bearing for nearly twenty 

 years, and is now coming into fruit in many other places, 

 where it promises to sustain its high reputation. 



Tree healthy, vigorous, robust, wide branching ; foliage large, 

 healthy ; fruit large, fair and handsome, globular, oblate, 

 regular, surface smooth, yellow, covered with mixed and min- 

 gled bright red, and stripes and plashes of deeper color, dots 

 minute ; flesh yellow, breaking, fine grained, juicy ; flavor 

 mild, sub-acid, rich, very agreeable, use, table, kitchen 

 and market, season October to December. Both fruit and 

 tree closely resemble the Cogswell, a Connecticut apple ; suit- 

 able for general cultivation. This valuable apple has already 

 been described. 



Stark Apple. Tree vigorous and healthy, fruit globular, 



