THE APPLE. 



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Fruit large to very large, roundish, truncated, nearly regular 

 sometimes unequal; surface clear rich yellow, overlaid with whitish; 

 dots obscure, numerous, white, minute, suffused, a few large russet 

 dots; cavity deep, narrow, acute, lined with stellate russet; stem short; 

 basin abrupt, wavy, medium; calyx open; segments divergent, long, 

 pointed. Core open, alaxile, wide, flattened; cells round, slit; tube 

 funnel-shaped: stamens median; seeds plump; flesh yellowish, with 

 jellow veinings, juicy, crisp, sprightly, spicy, subacid, very good. 

 Winter. 



Northern Spy. Originated about 1800 in East Bloomfield, near 

 Rochester, New York ; tree blooms late and is of rapid upright growth, 

 spreading with age, not an early bearer but productive when old, needs 

 high culture and pruning to admit the sun and air to the fruit. 



Northern Spy. 



Fruit large; form roundish, oblate, conical, obscurely angular; 

 surface smooth, greenish yellow, thinly covered with light and dark 

 purplish red overlaid with a thin whitish bloom; dots, obscure, few, 



