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fruit was discovered to be valuable. I have several trees, 

 four years from the graft, that have made good growth, and 

 I expect will soon bear well every other year. 



The apple appears to keep remarkably well, and I hope 

 this variety will prove as valuable as any other now known. 

 I propose to call it Averill. and annex a description. — Re- 

 spectfully^ your most obt. sei'vt., L. P. Grosvenor. 



Pomfret. Conn., April 27, 1849. 



To Samuel Walker, Esq. 



Size, large : Shape, oblong, slightly ribbed : Ski7i, pale red 

 and bright red, in stripes, on a greenish yellow ground, with 

 purple dots : Calyx, closed and slightly sunk : Stem, short and 



Fig. 26. The AverUl Apple. 



stout, not projecting beyond the base, set perpendicularly in 

 a middling-sized ribbed cavity : Flesh, light yellow or yel- 

 lowish white, with some green ; crisp, pleasant, rich subacid 

 flavor: Seeds, large, chestnut color: Core, hollow. Ripens 

 middle of March and keeps till June. Tree bears every other 

 year. 



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