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diameter, regularly formed, roundish, a little flattened. Skin 

 grayish in the ground, but nearly overspread with dark brown- 

 ish-red and rather rough. Stalk quite short, and sunk in a small 

 cavity. Eye rather narrow and shallow. Flesh firm, wither- 

 ing a little when fully ripe, with a sugary and somewhat musk- 

 like, perfumed flavour. October to January. 



101. FENOUILLET GUIS. Thomp. Poit. Nois. 

 Pomme d'Anis. 



A neat little Anise flavoured apple, but the tree is of too 

 weakly and feeble a growth to be worth cultivation. Its leaves 

 are very small and narrow, and the branches slender. The 

 fruit is small, roundish, slightly flattened. Skin fawn-coloured 

 russet on a yellowish ground, and rather rough. Eye quite 

 small, in a small basin. Stalk three fourths of an inch long. 

 Flesh firm, with a saccharine, perfumed flavour. December to 

 February. 



102. GLORIA MUNDI. Thomp. 



Monstrous Pippin. Core. Floy. Ken, 



Baltimore. 



Glazenwood Gloria Mundi. 



New- York Gloria Mundi. 



American Mammoth. 



Ox Apple. 



This magnificently large apple is a native fruit, and we have 

 frequently seen it weighing nearly a pound and a half, and 

 measuring 14 inches in circumference. It is an excellent cook- 

 ing apple, and, when in perfection, of a fair quality for eating ; 

 but, owing to its great weight, it blows from the tree, and is 

 rather unproductive. 



Fruit very large, roundish, rather angular, and slightly flat- 

 tened at the ends. Skin smooth, greenish-white before fully 

 ripe, when it is pale lemon yellow, becoming a little darker on 

 one side, with very rarely a faint blush, and sprinkled with dull 

 whitish spots imbedded under the surface. Stalk strong, deeply 

 inserted in a large cavity. Calyx large, set in a very deep, 

 wide basin, a little irregular, or obscurely furrowed. Core 

 small. Flesh white, tender, with a pleasant, acid flavour. Oc- 

 tober to January. 



After a careful comparison of the fruit and wood, we do not 

 hesitate to pronounce this synonymous with the Baltimore apple. 

 (The Alfriston is sometimes erroneously called Baltimore.) 



It is not a little curious that the origin of this apple, is claimed 

 for Red Hook (on the Hudson,) for Long Island, and Baltimore. 



