80 VARIETIES OP APPLE. 



and ability to endure handling and transportation without injury. 

 The fruit is a little above medium size, — when under good 

 cultivation, large; color duU greenish russet when gathered, 

 gradually changing to yellow russet at maturity, occasionally 

 flushed with reddish brown in the sun ; flesh greenish white, not 

 very juicy, with a pleasant, mild, sub-acid flavor; quality "good." 

 liipens up in February and will keep until July. 



The tree, when young, has the perverse, crooked habit of the 

 Greening, and forms in the orchard a spreading, somewhat strag- 

 gling head. It is as hardy as the Ehode Island Greening, and 

 about as prolific. 



Saint Lawrence. — Springle. — ^This is one of our very hardy 

 varieties, bearing fruit even in the Ottawa district of Ontario, in 

 the Province of Quebec, in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. 

 It originated in Montreal, as we are kindly informed by J. H. 

 Springle, Esq., about fifty years ago, in the garden of the late 

 Henry Schroden, from the seeds of some decayed apples thrown 

 on a heap of refuse. The original tree was stUl alive and healthy 

 a few years ago. The tree is a vigorous, upright grower, forming 

 in the orchard a fine spreading head, and is abundantly productive. 

 The fruit is large, handsomely striped with various shades of 

 purplish red on a yellow ground ; flesh ahnost as white as the 

 Fameuse, sometimes stained with red; crisp, juicy, with a pleasant, 

 somewhat aromatic, vinous flavor; quality of fruit grown in the 

 colder sections "very good," in the warmer portions, only "good." 



At the Provincial Exhibition of 1870, there was exhibited 

 by Mr. Shuttleworth an apple much resembling the St. Lawrence, 

 which, however, seemed to ripen later and possess a more sprightly 

 and spicy flavor. We believe it to be well worthy of a trial. 



SwAAR. — Originated in the same region whence came the 

 Esopus Spitzenburgh. This variety has been widely dissemi- 

 nated, and in certain sections is much esteemed. In the milder 

 sections, on stony, rich soil, it flourishes weU, and the fruit is of 

 excellent flavor ; but in the colder portions the trees suffer from 

 the severity of the winter, and eventually perish. It is but a 



