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fine form, rich color, and exceedingly sweet, it merits a 

 place in every good collection. The tree is not a very rapid 

 grower, and rather tardy in coming into bearing, but with 

 age becomes very productive. Its habit is rather slender, 

 forming a roundish head. 



27. THE ladies' sweeting apple. 



Size, large, about three and a half inches broad, and three 

 inches deep : Form, roundish, regular, very slightly ribbed, 

 and narrowing very little to the crown : Skin, fair, smooth, 

 with a greenish yellow ground, broadly covered with light 

 red, and rather faintly striped with crimson, deepest on the 

 sunny side, and dotted with numerous yellowish specks : 

 Ste7n, short, less than half an inch long, stout, and rather 

 deeply inserted in a medium-sized, funnel-shaped cavity : Eye, 

 rather large, open, and little sunk in a small ribbed basin ] 

 segments of the calyx, woolly : Flesh, greenish white, fine, 

 crisp and very tender : Juice, abundant, sweet, rich, and fine- 

 ly flavored : Core, large, open : Seeds, large, very long, and 

 sharply pointed. Ripe from January to April. 



