THE APPLE. 



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^rAr.GTF/s FaVORTTE. 

 King of the Rainbos. 



An old variety oriii-inatiiig on the farm of Anson Purple, Wost- 

 field, Peiin., and altliouoli a first-class summer and fall apple, it 

 •apjiears not to have been widely disseminated out of the neighbor- 

 hood of its origin. Tree a vigorous grower, making a large spreading 

 liead, bearing very full crops on alternate years. 



Fruit medium or above, roundish oblate, nearly regular; skin 



Maggie's Favorite, 



pale yellow at full maturity, shaded with light red, having short 

 stripes and splashes of dai'k red over half or more of the surface, 

 and manv large yellowish and brown dots, a portion being areole; 

 stalk short, rather stout; cavity medium, regular, slight greenish 

 russet; calyx open; basin medium, roundish, deep; ilesh whitish, 

 fine, tender, juicy, very pleasant subacid, slightly aromatic and very 

 good quality; core small or medium. Ripens in September and 

 keeps well. 



Mary Womack. 



.John W. Walker, of Anchorage, Ky., who sends specimens of 

 this apple, writes that it is a chance seedling on the farm of 

 George Womack, near Middletown, Ky., and named for his wife 

 bv the Kentucky Horticultural Society. It is evidently'- a seedling 

 of the Rambo, the color, form of fruit, and habit of the tree in- 

 dicate it, yet it is a mild sweet apple of first quality; it ripens in 

 Kentucky in August ajid September, or just after the Porter and 

 Gravenstein. Tree a thrifty grower, bears full crops on alternate 

 years, and a moderate crop intervening. 



Fruit medium, oblate, somewhat depressed, nearly regular; skin 



