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the cultivation of those plants and shrubs which require pe- 

 culiar management in the south, that our many readers in 

 that section may avail themselves of his good advice. — Ed, 



Art. III. Descriptions and E?igravings of Select Varieties of 

 Aj)ples. By the Editor. 



XXXI. Sutton Beauty. 



There are quite a number of seedling apples cultivated in 

 Worcester county, and some of them appear to possess great 

 merit. Recently, through the influence of the Worcester 

 County Horticultural Society, whose exhibitions of fruit, par- 

 ticularly of apples, have been remarkably fine, many of 

 these seedlings have been, for the first time, brought to the 

 notice of pomologists, and already several have been selected 

 which appear to be not only very new, but superior kinds for 

 general cultivation. We have, in our Pomological Notices 

 in our Magazine, (X. p. 211,) named several of them, but the 

 Sutton Beauty has more recently been introduced. 



Our correspondents, Messrs. Earle and Jacques, of Wor- 

 cester, sent us some specimens of the Sutton Beauty, which 

 we had the pleasure of seeing upon the tables of the Society, 

 at the Annual Exhibition last September, and we have found it 

 so excellent an apple, as well as one of the most beautiful 

 with which we are acquainted, that we have given it a place 

 in our descriptive list of select varieties, with the belief that it 

 will become a very popular fruit. 



The Sutton Beauty, {fg. 23,) originated in the town of 

 Sutton, in this State, and has, as yet, been but little dissem- 

 inated. It is of good size, with a brilliant crimson glossy 

 skin, and a white flesh. The tree is vigorous, and produces 

 great crops, bearing, like the Baldwin, only every other year. 



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

 and a half deep: Form, roundish oblong, regular, largest 

 near the middle, and narrowing little to the crown : Skin, 

 fair, smooth, glossy, with a pale lemon yellow ground, finely 

 striped with light red in the shade, and nearly covered with 



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