228 DESCRIPTION OF APPLES AND PEARS. 



medium size, round, and streaked and splashed 

 with light and dark red. Quality good to very 

 good; flesh yellowish, crisp, juicy, acid, with pleas- 

 ant flavor. When ripe it is apt to bitter rot at the 

 core and spread to the surrounding flesh. 



Lowell. Tree spreading, vigorous; light green 

 foliage and yellowish shoots. Hardiness 4 or better. 

 Fruit large and even size, round, yellowish green, 

 with a greasy or tallowy excrescence, from which 

 it is often called Greasy Pippin or Tallow Pippin. 

 Quality very good. Flesh tender and fine grained 

 and juicy, with yellowish cast, sub-acid, aromatic. 

 Use, dessert and kitchen, and is a fine market va- 

 riety. Season, August and September. 



St. Lawrence. Tree moderate regular grower 

 with heavy solidly welded branches, attaining great 

 size in the orchard. Of Canadian origin. Hardi- 

 ness 3, and extremely productive with age. A very 

 profitable autumn variety, and responds quickly to 

 a good top dressing of some fertilizer. Fruit round, 

 large, rarely conical ; yellow, with most pronounced 

 dark red stripes covering the whole surface which 

 give it a unique appearance and once seen will 

 never be forgotten. Quality very good, though too 

 sour to suit all for dessert; fine for the kitchen. 

 Season, October. 



Jeffries. Tree healthy, moderately vigorous, 

 shoots slender, early and abundant bearer. Habit 

 diverging to upright. (Its quality should place it 

 in every amateur list.) Fruit medium to large, flat. 

 Yellow ground splashed crimson. Flesh quite yel- 



