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New England Russet. Boston or 

 Roxbury Russet or Russeting. (Fig. 

 13.) This is claimed as a native of 

 Massachusetts, and is held throughout 

 New England in high repute. It is 

 usually considered the best of its class 

 popularly termed "leather-coats." The 

 size is full medium ; form irregularly 

 round, flattened at both stem and blos- 

 som end. When fully ripe of a russet 

 hue, occasionally with indications of 

 blush. It is in season at mid-winter, 

 but may be kept till May or June; in- 

 deed they may be seen sometimes in 



July. This property of long keeping in 

 connection with its productive habit, 

 has secured it great popularity. 



Yellow Newtown Pippin. (Fig. 

 14.) " This is in most of its varieties 

 the finest apple of our country, and 

 probably of the world. It varies much 

 in quality, with soil, aspect, cultivation, 

 climate and age. The form is rather 

 flat, the size large, the skin a greenish 

 yellow, with black clouds, and fre- 

 quently with red spots or blotches. It 

 ripens in November, and is often kept 

 t till May and June. It will produce fine 



