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THE APPLE CULTURIST. 



MYLKS'8 NONPAREIL. 



Synonyms. Ohio Nonpareil, Cattail Apple. Fruit Size, large ; form, round- 

 ish flattened ; color, red and yellow marbled and splashed, and with many scat- 

 tered gray dots ; stem, short to medium, small ; cavity, regular, open ; calyx, par- 

 tially open; basin, medium depth, smooth and regular; flesh, yellowish white, 

 juicy, rich, tender, mild, sub-acid ; core, regular, partially open ; seeds abundant, 

 plump, and full ; season, last of September to early December. In many locali- 

 ties, this valuable apple is highly esteemed both as a market variety and as a su- 

 perb fruit for culinary purposes. In other places, it does not succeed so satisfac- 

 torily as is desirable. 



respecting a pear-tree, and a cherry tree, with which we 

 once experimented. The pear-tree was upward of twenty 

 years old, and had never produced any ripe fruit. It was 

 usually well loaded with young fruit, much of which would 

 swell to the size of a large hen's egg, and then would be- 

 come knotty, full of cracks, wilted, and would all fall to the 

 ground, long before it was time for any of it to ripen. 

 Neither pruning nor manuring appeared to have any amel- 

 iorating effect. We often examined scores of the fallen 



