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THE APPLE. 



Cogswell. 

 Cogswell Pearmain. 



This excellent Apple oiigiiiated in the town of Griswold, near Nor- 

 wich, Ct., on a farm wliich came into the possession of William Cogs- 

 well about the year 1798. The original tree was then about foi-ty or 

 lifty years old. The fruit was first exhibited in 1816 or '18, before the 

 Massachusetts Horticiiltural Society. 



It is an extremely valuable variety wherever grown, either for table 

 or market purposes, a good keeper, and bears carriage to mai-ket long 

 distances without apparent injury. Tree a vigorous, upright, spreading 

 grower, an abundant bearer of very regular, even-sized fruit. Young 

 shoots dark reddish brown, somewhat downy. 



Cogswell. 



Fruit size above medium. Form roundish oblate, regular. Color 

 rich yellow, nearly covered with red, marked and streaked with bright 

 red, pretty thickly sprinkled with areole dots. Stalk short, i-ather slender. 

 Cavity lai'ge, thinly i-usseted. Calyx small, nearly closed. Basin small, 

 shallow. Flesh yellowish, fine-grained, tender, juicy, scarcely subacid, 

 lich aromatic. Core small. Very good to best. December to Mai'ch. 



Cole. 



Scarlet Perfume. 



Duling? 



A variety from England, of second quality, but admired for its beauty 

 of appearance. 



Fruit medium, roundish oblate, conic, ribbed. Color deep crimson 

 on a yellowish ground, or sometimes entirely red, with a little russet. 

 8talk medium, woolly, planted in a cavity bix>ad and deep. Calyx large, 

 in a broad basin. Flesh white, rather firm, juicy, yellowish, somewhat 

 rich and agreeable; Nearly very good. September and Octobei-. 



