AUTUMN APPLES. 



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state. Fruit above the medium size, roundish, scarcely flattened, 

 fair, and well formed. Skin, when fully ripe, pale yellow or 

 straw colour. Stalk about an inch long, slender at its junction 

 with the fruit. Calyx closed, and set in a basin of moderate 

 depth. Flesh tender, sweet, rich and excellent. The tree is a 

 pretty free grower, and bears large crops. This we think will 

 prove a valuable sort. Ripe in August and September. 



41. GRAVENSTEIN. Thomp. Lind. 

 Grave Slije. 



A superb looking German apple, which originated at Graven- 

 stein, in Holstein, and is thought one of the finest apples of the 

 north of Europe. It fully sustains its reputation here, and is, 

 unquestionably, a fruit of first rate quality. Fruit large, rather 

 flattened, and a little one sided or angular, broadest at the base. 



Fig. 32. Gravenstein. 



Stalk quite short and strong, deeply set. Calyx large, in a wide 

 deep, rather irregular basin. Skin greenish yellow at first, but 

 becoming bright yellow, and beautifully dashed and pencilled, 

 and marbled with light and deep red and orange. Flesh tender 

 and crisp, with a high flavoured, somewhat aromatic taste, 

 Ripens with us in September and October, but will keep a month 

 longer. The trees are very thrifty strong growers, and bear 

 young. 



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