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THE APPLE. 



Flesh tender, juicy, 



Fruit medium, roiindish conic, red striped, 

 pleasant subacid. Good. October, November. 



Fall Seek-no-Fukther, 

 Winter Seek-no-Further. 



Origin unknown. Tree much the habit of the Rhode Island Green- 

 ing, thiifty and productive. 



Finiit very large, oblate, yellow, mostly shaded with i-ed, striped 

 with darker red, and covered with numeious gra^dsh dots. Flesh whit- 

 ish, tender, moderately juicy, with a pleasant subacid flavor. Good. 

 October and November. 



There is another apple under name of Fall Seek-no-Further which 

 we have received from Iowa, of medium size, roundish, greenish, with 

 slight blush in the sun. Flesh white, tender, mild, subacid. Very 

 good and keeps till March. 



Sweet "Wine. 

 Ohio Wine. 



Fall Wine. 



Sharpe's Spice. 

 Uncle Sam's best. 



Musk Spice. 

 Hower or House. 



Origin unknown, probably an old Eastern frviit called " Wine " or 

 " Sweet Wine," but not now much cultivated on account of the fruit being 

 defective. lu the rich Western soils it thrives admirably, producing 

 fine frviit, yet in a few localities they complain of its being knurly. Tree 

 healthy, but of rather slender growth, bearing moderate crops annually. 



Fall Wine. 



Fruit above medium. Stem rather long, slender, in a broad, deep 

 cavity, surrounded by clear waxen yellow. Cal}^ partially closed 

 in a broad, deep, corrugated basin. Skin striped and shaded with red, 



