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APPLES. 



156. SWEETING, HARTFORD. 



Spencer Sweeting. 



A very excellent winter sweet apple, introduced to notice by 

 Dr. E. W. Bull, a zealous amateur of Hartford. It may be kept 

 till June, and this, added to its great productiveness, renders it 

 a most profitable market fruit. The original tree of the Hart- 

 ford Sweeting is growing on the farm of Mr. Spencer, a few 

 miles from Hartford, and has borne over forty bushels in a 

 season. The wood is rather strong, but of slow growth, and is 

 very hardy; (branches not pendulous, as stated by Kenrick.) 



Fruit rather large, roundish, slightly flattened. Skin smooth, 

 and fair, almost covered and striped with fine red over a yellow- 

 ish-green ground, and sprinkled with small gray dots. Stalk 

 nearly three quarters of an inch long, slender, inserted in a 

 rather shallow, round cavity. Calyx broad, closed, with few 

 segments, set in a slightly uneven basin which is but little sunk. 

 Flesh very juicy, tender, with a rich, agreeable flavour. De- 

 cember to May or June. 



157. SWEETING, LADIES'. 



The Ladies' Sweeting we consider the finest winter sweet 

 apple, for the dessert, yet known or cultivated in this country. 



Fifi. 56. Ladies 1 Sweehng. 



