144 AUTUMN APPLES. 



Summer Golden Pippin. Small, ovate, flattened at apex ; 

 bright yellow, stalk short ; flesh firm, crisp, and rich. 

 Last of summer. English. 



Sugar Loaf Pippin. Rather large, long ovate-conical, regu- 

 lar, handsome, smooth, pale yellowish white; stalk short, 

 sub-acid, second or third rate. Admired in England; 

 valueless here. 



White Astrachan. Medium in size, roundish, slightly coni- 

 cal, ribbed at apex, smooth, nearly white ; stalk thick 

 and short ; flesh white, pellucid, sub-acid, dry. Of little 

 value here ; fine in England. Russian. 



White Juneati?ig. (Syn. Bracken, of Ohio.) Small, round, 

 sometimes slightly oblate, smooth, very regular; pale 

 greenish yellow, or light yellow ; very thin russet round 

 the stalk ; stalk slender, three-quarters of an inch long, 

 set shallow ; basin very shallow ; tender, sub-acid, not 

 rich, becoming dry, second or third rate flavor. Ripens a 

 little before Yellow Harvest. Growth upright, rather 

 stout. Productive. For cooking only. 



The May apple, of Virginia, is a fruit similar in character 

 and quality to the White Juneating, where it ripens about 

 the first of summer, bearing every year. Large quanti- 

 ties are sent to Baltimore for tarts. 



DIVISION II. AUTUMN APPLES 



CLASS I. SWEET APPLES. 

 Section I. Striped with red. 



Beauty of the West. Large, round, smooth, marked with 

 small stripes of red on greenish yellow; stalk short; 

 sweet, second rate. 



Blenheim Pippin. (Syn. Woodstock Pippin, Bleinhim 

 Orange.) Large, roundish-conical ; mottled and striped 

 orange-red on yellow ground ; stalk short ; sweet, second 

 or third rate flavor. Used for baking. English. 



