568 



THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



LIX. Beauty of the West. Keiirick's Am. Orchardist. 



The Beauty of the West, {jig. 28,) was first described by- 

 Mr. Kenrick, upwards of twenty years ago, upon the author- 

 ity of Judge Buel ; and we cannot find any author, since then, 

 who has given anything more than a repetition of his de- 

 scription. It appears to be but very little cultivated, which 

 may account for the absence of more information respecting 



59. THE BEAUTY OF THE WEST APPLE. 



it. Our specimens, which were very fine, were received from 

 Mr. Wentworth, of Dover, N. H., who has a fine collection 

 of all the best apples. They were remarkably large, beauti- 

 ful and fine, and fully deserving the praise of Judge Buel, 

 who called it " a large, fair, and fine-flavored sweet apple, 

 presented to him in January, and kept till March." Later au- 

 thors mention it among the fall apples ; but, judging from the 

 ripeness of our specimens, we should call it an early winter 

 fruit. It will not keep like the Ladies' Sweeting, but is a 

 valuable December sweet apple. 



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



