Tree of most vigorous growth, with stout limbs ; bark greenish-brown, more 

 colored in the young shoots. Leaves thick, large round-oblong, slightly serrated 

 and downy beneath. The form is handsome, and this variety seems to be hardy and 

 suited to most of our soils. Fruit large, round or sometimes obovate, slightly ribbed 

 towards top. Stem, half an inch long, inserted in a deep smooth basin. Eye 

 small, not deeply sunk, in an irregular cavity. Core large, seeds middle sized, 

 differing in form and size, some abortive, in spacious capsules. Skin smooth, 

 glossy dark-red with stripe of a darker red when about ripe, and covered with fine 

 marblings of the same hue. Flesli firm, replete with juice ; of a brisk, sprightly, 

 vinous subacid, with sufficient sugar and flavor, making it a very refreshing fruit. 

 Keeps well, ripens slowly, and lasts as far as April. Indeed, one of our most 

 valuable winter apples. The fruit has much of the Esopus Spitzenburg character. 



RESTALRIG HOUSE, RESIDENCE OF G. G. LOGAN, 

 ESQ., AT GERMANTOWN, PA. 



BY R. MORRIS SMITH, ARCHITECT, Y4 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. f 



Before venturing to contribute another design to the Horticulturist, it may be 

 well to say a word of apology for my last little contribution (April), which was 

 so unfortunate as to be " walked into" by the formidable "Jeffreys." 



" Jeffreys" expresses his anxiety lest our " house architects" should run into 

 extremes as to the quantity of outside wall employed to inclose a given amount of 

 inside accommodation, and asks : " Why not have the outer walls inclose double 

 instead of single rooms ?" thus "getting much more space at far less cost," &c. 

 If Jeffreys will look again at the plan, he will perceive that there is provision for 

 double chambers over the parlor. On the other side of the hall, there are only 

 two ways to get a double instead of the single room ; first, by adding a room 

 above, and one below stairs, retaining the back-building, and, secondly, by omit- 

 ting the back-building, and making a double room in place of the single one, the 

 rear half doing duty as a kitchen, thus drawing the kitchen into the main building. 

 Is it possible that " Jeffreys" would recommend the latter course to any one who 

 could afford the comfort of a back-building kitchen? There would, undoubtedly, 

 be a saving thus effected, but it would be emphatically one of the description 

 known as " dear savings." I am perfectly willing to admit that the rooms gene- 

 rally would be " warmer" (especially in summer) by this arrangement. I will go 

 further, and grant that they would be much more odoriferous. But I cannot suj)- 

 pose the people of America so far behind the age as generally to build in a 

 mode obsolete in this vicinity for twenty years, and now only used in the cheapest 

 farm-houses, and must, therefore, suppose that "Jeffreys'" saving is to be effected 

 in the first-mentioned way — that is, by adding two rooms, one above, and one 

 below stairs ! Really, the economy of such a procedure by a family who didn't 

 want the two extra rooms is difficult to appreciate. Every one who has the 

 slightest acquaintance with building of course knows that these extra rooms 

 would be obtained at a less proportio?ial cost than the rest, and this, no doubt, is 

 what " Jeffreys" intends to convey, but, if he had read the descriptive article (I 

 am perfectly aware of, and do not wish to infringe the time-honored privilege, the 

 almost prescriptive right of critics, not to read the productions they select for the 



See Frontispiece of August number. 

 f This article was intended tor the last number, to accompany the engraving, but was 

 crowded out. — Ed. 



