Descriptions of Select Vaj-ieiies of Apples. 547 



XXIV. LoRiNG Sweeting. Thatcher's American Orrhardist. 



In the vicinity of Plymouth, an apple nnder the name of 

 Loring Sweeting, {Jig. 51,) is coiisiderahly cultivated, and 

 highly esteemed as one of the very best winter sweet apples. 

 No author mentions it but Dr. Thatcher ; he states that it 

 was "brought from the county of Bristol by Mr. E. Loring, 

 of Plympton, Plymouth county, and is much cultivated in 

 this vicinity ; its origin, or the name by which it is distin- 

 guished in other parts of the country, I have not been able to 

 ascertain." Several of our friends have sent us specimens 

 the last three or four years, but none of them so fine as some 



Fig. 5l. Loring Siceel Apple. 



we have had the present season from the Rev. A, R. Pope, of 

 Kingston, from one of which our drawing, as well as our de- 

 scription, has been made. 



Size, medium, about three and a quarter inches broad, and 

 two and a quarter deep : Fon?i, oblate, regular, largest in the 

 middle : Ski?i, fair, smooth, pale yellow, or greenish yellow, 

 broadly tinged with pale red, and more or less spotted with 

 large brownish specks : Stem, very short, about a quarter of 

 an inch long, thick, and deeply inserted in a large, open, reg- 

 ular cavity : Eye, medium size, closed, and little depressed in 

 a small, round, shallow basin ; segments of the calyx short : 



