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XLYII. Drap d'Or. DiihameL Arb. Fruit. 



Ace. to Hort. Soc. C.J. 



Vrai Drap d'Or, Duhamel. 



Bay Apple, 



Bonne de Mai, 



Goldzaugapfel, Diel Kernohst. 



Drap d'Or of France, Cole's View, die. 



The Drap d'Or {fig. 19) is not very generally cultivated, 

 and does not have a high reputation among pomologists. 

 But the specimens which we have seen have been remarka- 

 bly fair and handsome, and have been uniformly good — so 

 good, indeed, that the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 



Fig. 19. Drap d'Or. 



awarded this variety the second premium as an autumn ap- 

 ple, last year. Coxe describes and figures it, and pronounces 

 it a "great bearer, and highly worthy of cultivation." It is 

 certainly a fine looking fruit, having a rich, deep golden skin, 

 blotched and freckled with dark russet. 



Size, large, about three inches long, and three and a half 

 in diameter : Form, roundish, flattened at the base, narrow- 



