126 APPLES. 



136. PRIESTLY. Coxe. Thomp. 

 Priestley's American. 



Another native of the same state as the foregoing variety, and 

 named, like it, after the cultivator who first brought it into no- 

 tice. This sort has a pleasant, spicy flavour, and is much es- 

 teemed for eating and cooking. 



Fruit large, roundish-oblong. Skin smooth, dull red, with 

 small streaks of yellowish green, dotted with greenish specks. 

 Stalk of medium length, and inserted in a round, pretty deep 

 cavity. Flesh white, moderately juicy, with a spicy, agreeable 

 flavour. The foliage is large, and the tree, which is a hand- 

 some upright grower, bears well on light sandy soils. Decem- 

 ber to March. 



137. PEARSON'S PLATE. Thomp. 



A new variety, lately received from England, and not yet 

 well tested here, but which has a very high reputation. Fruit 

 small, about two and a half inches in diameter, regularly form- 

 ed, flat. Skin greenish-yellow, becoming yellow, with a little 

 red in the sun. Flavour first rate in all respects. Mr. Thom- 

 son says this is a good bearer, and a remarkably handsome des- 

 sert fruit. 



138. PECK'S PLEASANT. 



A first rate fruit in all respects, belonging to the Newtown 

 pippin class. It has long been cultivated in Rhode Island, 

 where we think it originated, and in the northern part of Con- 

 necticut, but as yet is little known out of that district of coun- 

 try, but deserves extensive dissemination. It considerably re- 

 sembles the Yellow Newtown pippin, though a larger fruit, with 

 more tender flesh, and is scarcely inferiour to it in flavour. 



Fruit above medium size, roundish, a little angular, and 

 slightly flattened, with an indistinct furrow on one side. Skin 

 smooth, and when first gathered, green, with a little dark red ; 

 but when ripe, a beautiful clear yellow, with bright blush on the 

 sunny side and near the stalk, marked with scattered gray dots. 

 The stalk is peculiarly fleshy and flattened, short, and sunk in 

 a wide, rather wavy cavity. Calyx woolly, sunk in a narrow, 

 abruptly, and pretty deeply sunk basin. Flesh yellowish, fine 

 grained, juicy, crisp and tender, with a delicious, high aromatic 

 flavour. The tree is only a moderate grower, but bears regu- 

 larly and well, and the fruit commands a high price in market. 

 Mr. S. Lyman, who raises this fruit in great perfection, informs 

 us that with him the apples on the lower branches of old trees 



