WINTER APPLES. CLASS I. 75 



76. HARTFORD SWEETING. 



Sometimes called Spencer Sweeting, or Champ Sweeting. 

 A fine, large, and beautiful fruit, of a red color ; there are 

 few so fair ; the flesh tender, juicy, and sweet. It remains 

 fine till June. This fruit originated near Hartford, Conn., 

 and was introduced to Boston by Dr. E. W. Ball, of that 

 city. The tree grows slow, and pendulous. It bears well. 



77. HEREFORDSHIRE PEARMAIN. Coxe. Py. 



Mai 



WINTER PEARMAIN. Syn. Coxe. 



The, fruit is above the medium size, slightly ribbed, of 

 a yellow color, covered with bright stripes of red ; deep 

 red next the sun ; the flesh very juicy and high-flavored. 

 A beautiful and excellent apple, either for the dessert or 

 for cooking. October to April. Mr. Coxe has added, that 

 this variety is supposed to be the most hardy and uniformly 

 productive apple of the Middle States. The tree grows 

 handsome. 



78. *HUBBARDSTON NONSUCH. 



A new and most superior variety, which originated in 

 Hubbardston, Mass., and is esteemed very superior to any 

 other fruit known here, which bears the name of Nonsuch. 

 The tree grows vigorous, large, branching, and handsome. 

 A prodigious bearer. The fruit is large, globular, or con- 

 ical ; of a yellow color in the shade, but mostly covered 

 with irregular, small and broken stripes of pale red ; bright 

 red next the sun ; the flesh yellow, juicy, rich, sweet, re- 

 lieved by a slight acid, and excellent. This capital variety 

 ripens in December, and keeps till February, and is recom- 

 mended for general cultivation. 



79. JONATHAN. Judge Bucl. 



PHILIP RICK of the Kingston orcltards. 



A new winter fruit, which, for its eminent beauty and 

 excellence, is admired above all others, by good judges, 

 in Albany and its vicinity. The fruit is round, two and 

 a half inches in diameter, regular shaped, the eye in a 

 broad, deep cavity ; the stem three fourths of an inch, 

 slender, in a deep, round cavity ; the skin thin, pale 

 red, blended with yelloxv, and deepening into bright 

 red and dark purple next the sun : flesh very tender, 

 white, occasionally tinged with red ; juice very abundant, 

 rich, and highly-flavored. Named for Jonathan Har- 



