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alike, and they are both excellent bearers. This variety is 

 rather hardier and succeeds best in the eastern states. We 

 have kept the fruit until the 4th of July. 



123. NORTHERN Spy. 



A very large, handsome, and excellent, new native fruit, of 

 the Spitzenburgh family, which has lately attracted a good deal 

 of notice. It keeps remarkably well, is in eating from Decem- 

 ber to May, and commands the highest price. The tree is of 

 rapid and upright growth, and bears well. It originated on the 

 farm of Oliver Chapin, of Bloomfield, near Rochester, and is 

 likely to become a very popular apple. 



Fruit large, conical, considerably ribbed. Skin smooth, of a 

 yellow ground in the shade, but nearly covered with rich dark 

 red, marked with crimson or purplish streaks, and sprinkled 

 with prominent yellowish dots. Stalk three quarters of an inch 

 long, rather slender, planted in a very wide, deep cavity. 

 Calyx set in a rather narrow, furrowed basin. Flesh yellow- 

 ish-white, juicy, with a rich, aromatic, sub-acid flavour. 



123. NONPAREIL, OLD. Lang. Lind. Thorn p. 

 English Nonpareil. Non Pareille. O. Duh. 



The Old Nonpareil is a favourite apple in England, but it is 

 little esteemed in this country. November to January. 



Fruit below medium size, roundish, a little ovate, and flat- 

 tened. Skin greenish-yellow, thinly coated with pale russet. 

 Stalk slender, an inch long. Calyx small, set in a narrow, round 

 basin. Flesh firm, crisp, with a rich, acid, poignant flavour. 



124. NONPAREIL, SCARLET. Thomp. Lind. Ron. 

 New Scarlet Nonpareil. 



A handsomer and larger variety of the foregoing. Fruit of 

 medium size, roundish, two and a half inches in diameter, and 

 half an inch less in depth regularly formed. Skin, in the sun 

 deep red, sprinkled with brownish gray dots on a ground of yel- 

 lowish green, slightly streaked. Calyx set in a regularly form- 

 ed, shallow basin, with a few small plaits. Stalk nearly an inch 

 long, and rather stout. Flesh firm, yellowish-white, with a 

 rich, acid juice. The tree is a much stronger grower than the 

 old sort. November to February. 



125. NORFOLK BEAUFIN. Thomp. Lind. 



Read's Baker. 

 Catshead Beaufin. 



Chiefly valued for drying. In Norfolk, England, quite a 



