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late, keeps for some time, and an excellent cooking Apple. Tree robust 

 and a good bearer. 



Beauty of Kent. A handsome English variety, with large roundish- 

 ovate fruit. Skin greenish-yellow, heavily marked with stripes of dark- 

 red. Flesh juicy, crisp, with a pleasant sub-acid flavour. Ripens, 

 medium late, will keep fairly well, and a good culinary Apple. Tree 

 strong, upright, and bears freely. 



Bedfordshire Foundling (Cambridge Pippin). A first-class English 

 culinary variety, with large roundish slightly ribbed fruit. Skin deep- 

 green, with a yellowish tinge on one cheek. Flesh yellowish-white, 

 juicy, and pleasantly sub-acid. Ripens late, keeps well, and is an 

 excellent cooking Apple. Tree strong and prolific. 



Ben Davis (Baltimore Red, Carolina Red Streak, Kentucky Pippin, 

 Red Pippin, Victoria Pippin). A popular and very good American 

 variety, with medium-sized, or larger, roundish-conical fruit. Skin 

 yellow, but nearly overspread with stripes and splashes of two shades 

 of red. Flesh white, tender and sub-acid. Ripens late, keeps well ; a 

 good dessert and showy market fruit ; also a good Apple for exporting. 

 Tree bears early, is very productive, and as it blooms late is suitable for 

 districts where frosts linger in the spring. 



JBenoni. An excellent early American variety, with roundish-conical 

 fruit, rather below medium size. Skin pale-yellow, striped, shaded and 

 marbled with dark-crimson. Flesh yellowish, juicy and pleasantly sub- 



Ben Davis. 



