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is uniformly fair and handsome, and the tree a great bearer. 

 The trees are moderately vigorous, and form a broad spread- 

 ing head. 



Size, medium, about three inches broad, and two and a 

 half deep: Form, roundish, regular, narrowing very little to 

 the eye : Skin, fair, smooth, of a pale yellow, or greenish yel- 

 low, tinted with pale blush on the sunny side, and consider- 



Fig. \6. Tolman's Sxceeting Apple. 



ably dotted with large reddish spots : Stem, medium length, 

 about half an inch long, rather slender, curved, and inserted 

 in a deep, open, and irregular cavity : Eye, medium size, 

 closed, and sunk in a small, rather deep and somewhat ribbed 

 basin; segments of the calyx broad : Flesh, yellowish, rather 

 fine, and tender: /?/jce, tolerably plentiful, rich, sugary, and 

 well-flavored: Core, small, close: ^See^, small, rather short, 

 and plump. Ripe from November to February. 



Art. V. A Select List of Apples, with a Few Observatio?is 

 on their Respective Merits. By Samuel Walker, President 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Dear Sir, — For the first time, I have ventured to place on 

 paper, a select list of apples, such as are, in my opinion, the 



