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Through winter and into spring. A profuse bearer. 

 Growth not vigorous. Newburgh, N. Y. Fig. 118. 



Phillips' Sweeting. Medium or large, roundish, slightly 

 flattened and conical, regular ; mottled red, yellow, and 

 dark red; flesh rich yellow, tender, juicy, crisp, sweet. 

 Very handsome ; resembles Ladies' Sweeting, but more 

 showy and not equal in flavor. Early winter ; Growth 

 upright, vigorous. Central Ohio. 



RamsdelVs Sweeting. (Syn. RamsdelPs Red Pumpkin 

 Sweet.) Rather large, oblong, obscurely conical, regular; 

 dark rich red, with a blue bloom ; stalk short ; basin 

 rather deep, even ; flesh yellowish, tender, sweet, rich, 

 good second-rate, or nearly first-rate. Tree vigorous, up- 

 right, very productive. Late autumn and early winter. 

 Conn. 



Sweet Baldwin. Medium or rather large, round, often round- 

 oblate, very obscurely conical, very regular; color a fine 

 deep red indistinctly striped on yellow ground ; stalk 

 three-quarters of an inch long, slender, cavity very even; 

 basin rather small, nearly smooth ; flavor, very sweet, 

 nearly first-rate. Early winter. Fig. 155. 



Swet* Pearmain. (Sy?i. English Sweeting, of Rhode Island.) 

 Medium size, roundish or ovate-conical ; dark rich red, 

 with rough dots ; stalk an inch long, slender, cavity wide, 

 round ; calyx wooly, basin very small ; flavor sweet and 

 ricL- Early winter. Introduced from England before the 

 rev lution. 



Section II. Not striped. 



BROAD WELL. Rather large, slightly conical, somewhat 

 oblate ; skin thin, smooth, greenish yellow ; stalk short, 

 small, deep set; flesh white, tender, sweet, juicy, fine 

 often first rate, and one of the best winter sweet apples. 

 Keept> through winter late into spring. Ohio. New. 



Cann. Size, medium; conical; green with a brownish 

 shade near the stalk ; very sweet. Early winter. N. J. 



DANVERS WINTER SWEET. Medium or rather large, 

 roundish, remotely oblong or conical, obscurely ribbed ; 



