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with projecting ribs; yellow in the shade, slightly red next 

 the sun ; flesh firm, juicy, with but little acidity, and very 

 good. It has cavities at the centre, and keeps till March. 

 The tree is very productive. 



24. CUMBERLAND SPICE. Coxe. 



The tree is very productive ; a fine dessert fruit, large, 

 rather oblong, contracted towards the summit ; the stalk 

 thick and short; of a pale yellow color, clouded near the 

 base ; the flesh white, tender, and fine. It ripens in au- 

 tumn, and keeps till winter, and shrivels in its last stages. 



25. *DRAP D'OR OF FRANCE of Coxe and Ron- 



ald, but not of Duh. Mr. Manning. 



The tree is a most productive variety ; the fruit fine 

 and highly deserving of cultivation. It is very large, hand- 

 some, of globular form, compressed a little at summit and 

 base ; the stalk short ; of a fine yellow color, with occa- 

 sional faint blotches; flesh white, firm, and of good flavor. 

 Season, September, October, and November. 

 2G. DUCHESS OF OLDENBURGH. 



A very beautiful Russian apple, valuable for the dessert 

 or sauce ; middle-sized ; globular ; color golden, streaked 

 with bright red; flavor pleasant, rather acid. September. 

 A good bearer. 



27. DYER, OR POMME ROYAL of some. 



So named for Messrs. Dyer, of Cranston, R. I., and the 

 gentleman who has lately brought this fruit into notice in 

 Massachusetts. A large apple, round, of a yellowish white 

 in the shade, slightly colored with red next the sun ; the 

 flesh white, juicy, of a rich, saccharine, stibacid, and ex- 

 cellent flavor. A superior fruit, ripening in October. It is 

 sometimes called Woodstock. 



28. EMPEROR ALEXANDER. Hort. Trans. Lind. 

 ALEXANDER, APORTA. 



The trees of this Russian apple bear abundantly. A 

 specimen was sent from Riga, in 1817, measuring 5 inches 

 in diameter, 4 inches deep, and 16 inches in circumfer- 

 ence, and weighing 19 ounces. Fruit very large, cordate, 

 narrow at the crown ; the eye in a broad, deep cavity ; stalk 

 short, sunk to the level of the base ; greenish yellow, slight- 

 ly streaked with red in the shade, but beautifully marbled 

 and streaked with bright red and orange next the sun; 

 flesh yellowish white, crisp, and very tender, juicy, rich, 



