66 THE APPLE. 



AUTUMN BOUGH. 



yellowish white, tender, juicy, sub-acid ; core, medium ; seeds, 

 large, full. Season, October. 



Autumn Sweet Rough. 



American : tree, vigorous, productive ; size, medium or above ; 

 form, obtuse conical ; color, clear light yellow, with occasionally 

 a russet blotch, and a few small russet dots ; stem, slender, curved 

 to one side; cavity, deep, regular; calyx, closed with long seg 

 ments; basin, ribbed or furrowed; flesh, white, crisp, tender, del i- 

 ciously sweet ; core, small ; seed cavity, hollow ; seed, plump, 

 full. Season, September. 



BALDWIN. 



Late Baldwin, I Woodpecker, 

 Pecker, | Steelcs Hcd Winter. 



American : originated in Massachusetts. This variety inclines to 

 bitter or dry rot on soils deficient in lime and potash ; and for the 

 western soils should be worked where intended to have the head 

 commence. Tree, vigorous, upright, dark brown shoots, very pro 

 ductive. Our drawing was taken from an Eastern grown specimen, 

 and is not more than one-half the size of this variety when grown in 

 Illinois. 



Size, large ; form, roundish, narrowing a little to the calyx ; color, 

 yellowish, nearly covered and striped with red, dotted with a few 

 russet spots, and with radiating streaks of russet about the stem; 

 stem, three-fourths inch long, slender ; cavity, deep ; calyx, closnd ; 



