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of it. It succeeds well in almost all of the northern sections of the 

 States, and on a great variety of soils, and where it does succeed is one 

 of the most esteemed and profitable among early winter fruits. In 

 Southern Ohio, Indiana, and farther south it drops too early. Tree a 

 very vigorous, strong, spreading grower. Young shoots reddish brown. 

 Very productive. 



Rhode Island Greening. 



Fruit large, roundish, a little flattened, pretty regular, but often 

 obscurely ribbed, dark green, becoming greenish yellow when ripe, when 

 it sometimes shows a dull blush . near the stalk. Calyx small, woolly, 

 closed, in a slightly sunk scarcely plaited basin. Stalk three-fourths of 

 an inch long, cui ved, thickest at the bottom. Flesh yellow, fine-grained, 

 tender, crisp, with an abundance of rich, slightly aromatic, lively, acid 

 juice. Very good. November to February. 



Rhode's Orange. 



Raised by Col. Mercer Rhodes, Newton Co., Ga. Tree a slow 

 grower, s])reading, productive. 



Fruit medium, i-oundish oblate, yellowish, washed, striped, and mot- 

 tled with light red, many light and gray dots. Stalk rather long. Calyx 

 small, closed. Flesh whitish, tender, juicy, pleasant subacid. Good. 

 Coi-e small. August. 



RiBSTON Pippin. 

 Glory of York. Travers'. Formosa Pippin. Rockhill's Russet 



The Ribston Pippin, a Yorkshii-e Apple, stands as high in Great 

 Britain as the Bank of England, and to say that an Apple has a Ribston 



