LADIES' SWEETING APPLE. 



Tree. — Moderately vigorous, upright, branching off at an open angle, 

 making a roundish head ; annual growth short, downy at the ends. 



Wood. — Reddish chestnut, slender, and short-jointed ; old wood, 

 brownish chestnut; buds, small, short, flattened, erect: Flower-buds, 

 small, woolly. 



Leaves. — Small, ovate, broad at the base, narrowing to the point, 

 thick, deep green, prominently and coarsely veined, downy beneath, 

 sharply and deeply serrated, and slightly recurved on the midrib ; pe- 

 tioles, short, about half an inch long, stout, downy. 



Flowers. — Small ; petals round, concave, of a rather dingy shade of 

 white ; clusters, small. 



Fruit. — Large, about three and a half inches broad, and three 

 inches deep : Form, roundish, regular, very shghtly ribbed, and nar- 

 rowing very little to the crown : Skin, fair, smooth, with a greenish yel- 

 low ground, broadly covered with light red, and rather faintly striped 

 with crimson, deepest on the sunny side, and dotted with numerous 

 yellowish specks : Stem, short, less than half an inch long, stout, and 

 rather deeply inserted in a medium-sized, funnel-shaped cavity : Eye, 

 rather large, open, and little sunk in a small ribbed basin ; segments of 

 the calyx, woolly : Flesh, greenish white, fine, crisp and very tender : 

 Juice, abundant, sweet, rich, and finely flavored: Core, large, open : 

 Seeds, large, very long, and sharply pointed. 



Ripe in January, and keeps well into April and May. 



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