254 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Apples. 



ing to the crown, which is small : Skiti, fair, smooth, clear 

 lemon yellow, dotted with a few large russet specks : Stem, 

 short, less than half an inch long, rather stout, and deeply set 

 in a contracted cavity : Eye, medium size, closed, and mod- 

 erately depressed in a small, finely furrowed basin ; segments 

 of the calyx short : Flesh, yellowish white, fine, crisp and 

 tender: /;«ce, tolerably abundant, very pleasantly and well 

 flavored : Core, large, very open : Seeds, medium size. 

 Ripens in October, and keeps to January. 



XLVIII. Ledge Sweet. 



Late in the spring of last year, and also of the present 

 one, specimens of a most excellent sweet apple have been 

 placed upon the tables of the Massachusetts Horticultural 



Fig. 20. Ledge Sweet. 



Society, from Mrs. Haven, of Portsmouth, N. H. They 

 were perfectly sound and fresh, as if just gathered from the 

 tree. Proving for two seasons so fine, the Committee, at the 

 request of Mrs. Haven, recently named it the Ledge Sweet. 

 (Fig. 20.) 



