APPLES AT THE SOUTH 



distinguished by its duller red color, 

 and also by being distinctly striped, 

 while the Red June is a complete 

 blaze of crimson. Not so good for 

 dessert, but a good bearer, and a na- 

 tive. Ripens first of June. 



5. Sinclair's Yellow. — This name 

 ■vre give an apple received from Sin- 

 clair's nurserj', at Baltimore, and 

 which proves one of the best. Fruit 

 — small to medium, flat or roundish; 

 skin — smooth, of fine orange color, 

 darkened in the sun; flesh — pale yel- 

 low, with a rich sub-acid flavor. 

 A gnod bearer, and excellent for both 

 the table and kitchen. Indispensa 

 ble. Ripe June 15th. 



6. 3faiden's Blush.-(^Soe "Fruits 



Striped June. 



and Fruit Trees of America." Perliaps our best foreign variety. A fine nardy tree, 

 bears abundantly, e.xcellent for drying and culinary uses, and good for dessert. Ripens 

 gradually from the first of July, and lasts into August. 



7. Horse jlppU. — This name is given to a class of apples, the different sorts of which, 

 resembling each other in appearance and flavor, but which differ a good deal in quality- 

 All are excellent culinary fruits, lasting a long time, and the best of them aregood dessert 

 apples. This apple is propagated with considerable certainty from seed, M'hich has proba- 

 bl}' caused the different varieties of the same apple. Size — medium to large, roundish, 

 narrowing to the eye, sometimes conical, and somewhat ii'regular: skin — thick greenish 

 yellow in the shade, but a rich dark orange, or blush towards the sun — often marked 

 with a few russet lijics or flecks about the stem; stem — short, rather large, sunk in a 

 shallow cavity — calj'x in a narrow basin; core — large, hollow; seeds — few; flesh — yellow, 

 firm, coarse grained, Mith a rich acid flavor. Well ripened, it is a good table apple, 

 always excellent for cooking. Ripens the last of July, but like your Holland Pippin, 

 fit for cooking a long while before. Continues in use a long time. One of the most pro- 

 ductive, valuable, and hardy trees we have, but should be propagated only from the best 

 varieties. One of tliem in this section, is called the Oidfield Apple. 



8. Male. Carh. — (See Downing.) This succeeds the Maiden's Blush and Horse Apple, 

 and proves a good and hardy vaiiet}^ Tree very productive, and almost as well adapted 

 to the climate as the Horse Apple itself. Fruit of excellent qualit}"^, ripens the last of 

 August and into September. 



9. Carthouse or Gilpin. — (See Downing.) Ripens a little later than the foregoing, and 

 a fine fruit for this climate, quality good, tree quite a good bearer, lasts until the middle 

 of September, and sometimes later with care. 



Apples that are of as good quality and immediately succeed the Gilpin are very desira- 

 ble. The latter will keep as long as any northern variety we have tried. From the n)id- 

 dle of September until November, I do not know of any good and productive table apple."?. 

 Some tolerable undescribed and unnamed native fruits, come into the market that Avill do 

 the kitchen, but no good table fruits. As most other fruits are gone, wh 

 ches ripen so late not being of the best quality, Grapes (Scuppernong) not 



