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THE APPLE (JULTURI8T. 



KHODE ISLAND GEEENINQ. 



Synonyms. Burlington Greening, Jersey Greening, Rnssine, Grunling von 

 Rhode Island, and Bell Dubois. The fruit is large and roundish, a little flat- 

 tened, quite regular, but often obscurely ribbed, dark green, becoming greenish- 

 yellow when ripe, sometimes showing a dull blush near the stem. The flesh is 

 yellow, fine-grained, tender, crisp, with an abundance of rich, slightly aromatic, 

 lively acid juice. For market and for culinary purposes, it has few superi- 

 ors. Season from November to April. The tree is vigorous, and usually hardy. 

 At the South the fruit is said to drop too early in autumn to be a profitable 

 apple. 



during the summer, on account of drought. When the 

 autumn months have been exceedingly favorable for the 

 growth of all kinds of trees, and when young branches have 

 continued to push out until freezing weather has put an 

 end to all vegetation, if trees have not been prepared for 

 winter, of course many of them must be utterly destroyed 

 by the cold. 



