WINTER APPLES. 179 



Catshead. (Sy?i. Cathead Greening.) Very large, round,* 

 pale green, stalk half an inch long, cavity deep, basin 

 wide, deep ; tender, sub-acid ; flavor rather poor. 



Court of Wick. Rather small, regular, round-ovate, slight- 

 ly flattened ; greenish-yellow, with an orange red cheek; 

 stalk short ; calyx open, basin wide, shallow ; flesh crisp, 

 juicy, with a high acid flavor. Hardy, suited for the ex- 

 treme north. English. 



Cranberry Pippin. Rather large, regular, oblate, very 

 smooth ; color, a beautiful blush on pale clear yellow, 

 often with large red dots on the sunny side ; stalk slen- 

 der, three-fourths of an inch long ; calyx deep set, basin 

 round, with a full obtuse rim; flesh white, sub-acid, 

 second-rate flavor. Early winter. Exceedingly beauti- 

 ful ; resembles Maiden's Blush, but later, and not equal 

 in quality. 



Cumberland Spice. Rather large, varying from roundish- 

 conicaf o long conical, the tapering sides being nearly 

 straight and not rounded ; color, waxen yellow, with a 

 slight vermillion tinge near the base ; and with black 

 specks on the surface ; stalk half to three-fourths of an 

 inch long, cavity wide, slightly russeted ; calyx open, ba- 

 sin even ; flesh yellowish- white, breaking, rather light ; 

 core hollow ; flavor mild sub-acid, with a peculiar and 

 agreeable spiciness, of good second-rate quality. This 

 has been confounded with the Ortley or White Detroit of 

 the west, but is quite distinct. Fig. 128. 



Aunt Hannah* Size medium, roundish, approaching ovate, 

 straw color, with a very pleasant mild sub-acid, fine fla- 

 vor, resembling in character the Newtown Pippin. Ori- 

 gin, Essex county, Massachusetts. 



English Golden Russet. (Syn. Golden Russet of New- 

 York.) Size medium ; roundish, usually a little oblong, 

 sometimes slightly flattened, nearly regular; surface 

 sometimes wholly a thick russet ; and at others a thin 

 broken russet on a greenish-yellow skin ; stem slender, 

 from half an inch to an inch long, being longest on ob- 



* " the Cat's-Head's weighty orb 



Enormous of its growth." Phillips. 



