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CLASS III. 



SELECT LIST OF FOREIGN VARIETIES OF APPLES 

 DESERVING TRIAL IN NORTHERN CLIMAl^S. 



The following select list of Northern fruits are chiefly of 

 British origin. They are described by their writers, Lind- 

 ley and Ronald, as of first-rate excellence ; the latter, es- 

 pecially, from his great collection of trees in bearing. Yet, 

 as few of them are by him included in that list of kinds 

 which he has recommended as being highly improved on 

 walls, or as requiring a warmer climate, I have therefore 

 concluded to leave them in high northern latitudes. 

 Other reasons for this will be found in the " INTRODUC- 

 TION" to this work, and in the article which follows, on 

 " CLIMATE." I have assigned them to the influence of 

 fine summer skies ; to Nova Scotia and the Canadas, and 

 the British possessions in America; also to the north- 

 western section of our own country, on the side of the 

 Pacific ; to Oregon, and our neighbors, the Russians, ly- 

 ing contiguous. For all of them, we might include, also, 

 many other kinds, of the first and second classes, which 

 may have originated in the higher latitudes. Some of 

 them, however, will prove fine with us, and all are now 

 on trial. 



SECTION I. 



SUMMER FRUIT. 



181. ASTRACAN. Pom. Mag. Lind. Dr. Willich. 



WHITE ASTRACAS. Pom. Mag. and Lind. 



GLACE DE ZELANDE. Ib. TRANSPARENT DE MOSCOVIE. Ib. 



RUSSIAN ICE APPLE. Ib. POMME DE GLACE. Ib. 

 This fruit is said to grow wild about Astracan. It is of 

 medium size, globular, the sides angular ; the skin is 

 smooth, and covered with pale bloom; the flesh semi- 

 transparent, of the whiteness of snow. Dr. Willich, on the 

 authority of M. Christ, has described it as beautiful, yel- 

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