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Descriptions of Select Varieties of Apples. 



XXVII. Ben. 



Eustis, of some collections. 



Under the name of Ben, or Eustis apple, {fig. 11,) this 

 variety is tolerably well known to cultivators in the vicinity of 

 Boston, where it has been occasionally exhibited before the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, by Mr. James Eustis, of 

 South Reading, in which town, we believe, it originated, who 

 introduced it to notice. Tried wilh other well known and 

 esteemed apples, by the Fruit Committee of the Society, the 

 past autumn, when Mr. Eustis exhibited some fine speci- 



Fig. 1 1 . Ben Apple. 



mens, they pronounced it "good for the season, and worthy 

 of cultivation.'' Mr. Eustis gave us some of the apples, and 

 agreeing with the Committee in their opinion, we have 

 thought it well deserving a place among the select varieties 

 which we intend to describe and figure in our pages. The 

 tree is a healthy grower, and an abundant bearer. 



Size^ large, about two and a half inches broad, and two 

 and a half deep : Form, roundish conical, regular, broad at 



