THE APPLE. 



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with the weight of the fruit. Young shoots very dark brown ; an an- 

 mial and great bearer. 



Fruit medium, roundish conical, deep rich red, almost purplish, few 

 small light dots. Flesh white, sometimes stained a little next the skin, 

 firm-grained, tender, juicy, sprightly, vinous. Good to very good. 

 December, January. 



DOMINE. 



This Apple, extensively planted in the orchards on the Hudson and 

 west, so much resembles the E.ambo externally, that the two are often 

 confounded together, and the outline of the latter fruit (see Rambo) 

 ruay be taken as nearly a fac-simile of tlds. The Domine is, however, 

 of a livelier color, and the flavor and season of the two fruits are very 

 di.^tinct, — the Rambo being rather a high-flavored early winter or au- 

 tumn apple, while the Domine is a sprightly, jnicy, long-keeping winter 

 fruit. 



Fruit of medium size, flat. Skin lively greenish yellow in the shade, 

 with stripes and splashes of bright red in the sun, and pretty large rus- 

 set specks. Stalk long and slender, planted in a wide cavity and inclin- 

 ing to one side. Calyx small, in a broad basin, moderately sunk. Flesh 

 white, exceedingly tender and juicy, with a sprightly pleasant, though 



not high flavor. Young wood of a smooth, lively light brown, and the 

 trees are very hardy, and the most rapid growers and prodigious early 

 bearei-s that we know — the branches being literally weighed down by the 

 rope-like clusters of fruit. 



