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THE APPLE. 



Autumn Bough. 



yellowish white, tender, juicy, sub-acid; core, medium.; seeds^ 

 large, full. Season, October. 



Autumn Sweet Bough. 



American : tree, vigorous, productive ; size, medium or above ; 

 form, obtuse conical ; color, clear light yellow, with occasionally 

 a russet blotch, and a few small russet dots ; stem, slender, curved 

 to one side ; cavity, deep, regular ; calyx, closed with long seg- 

 ments ; basin, ribbed or furrowed ; fiesh, white, crisp, tender, deli- 

 ciously sweet ; core, small ; seed cavity, hollow ; seedy plump, 

 full. Season, September. 



Baldwin. 



Late Baldwin, I Woodpecker, 

 Pecker, j Steeles Red Winter. 



American : originated in ^Massachusetts. This variety inclines to 

 bitter or dry rot on soils deficient in lime and potash ; and for the 

 western soils should be worked where, intended to have the head 

 commence. Tree, vigorous, upright, dark brown shoots, very pro- 

 ductive. Our drawing was taken from an Eastern grown specimen, 

 and is not more than one-half the size of this variety when grown in 

 Illinois. 



Size, large ; form, roundish, narrowing a little to the calyx ; color, 

 yellowish, nearly covered and striped with red, dotted with a few 

 russet spots, and with radiating streaks of russet about the stem ; 

 stem, three-fourths h]^ long, slender; cavity^, deep; calyx, clo-ed; 



