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uable winter sweet apple, keeping sound a long time, and 

 ranking with the Romanite in its keeping qualities, but much 

 before it, both as a cooking and dessert apple. The descrip- 

 tion is as follows : 



Size^ medium, two and three quarter inches broad by two 

 and a half deep : Form, oblate, narrowing a little towards 

 the crown : Ski?i, smooth, bright yellow, sometimes russet 

 next the stem, with a slight blush next the sun : Stem, me- 

 dium length, three quarters of an inch, slender, and inserted 

 in a regularly funnel-shaped cavity : Fi/e, rather small, and 

 slightly sunk in an irregularly curved basin : Flesh, yellow- 

 ish white, and tender : Juice, tolerably abundant and sweet : 

 Seeds, small; Core, small, broader than deep. Keeps till 

 May, and is in eating by first of January. 



Coshocton, Ohio, April, 1848. 



Art. III. Summer Pruning Dwarf Fruit Trees, as prac- 

 tised in France. By R. Thompson, Superintendent of the 

 Fruit Department in the Garden of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society. With Remarks. By the Editor. 



We have, from time to time, especially in our Horticultural 

 Memoranda, given brief directions in regard to the method 

 of summer pruning fruit trees. We have also copied numer- 

 ous papers from our foreign periodicals treating upon the 

 same subject ; and our correspondent, Mr. Carmichael, who 

 was formerly in the garden of the horticultural society, under 

 Mr. Thompson, has furnished us with his excellent articles, 

 (Vol. X. pp. 164, 215,) in which the whole system is de- 

 scribed, and the rationale of the practice made familiar to 

 every cultivator. To his articles we would invite the atten- 

 tion of all who intend to adopt this mode of management, 

 as they are plain, concise, and to the point. 



Last season, Mr. Thompson made a tour to Paris, for the 

 purpose of noting the progress of horticulture in that city, 

 and he subsequently published an account of his visit in the 

 Journal of the Horticultural Society, (Yol. II. p. 202,) in 



