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THE APPLE. 



p size of four inches diameter, by three inches from stem to eye, and mostly 

 Covered with russet. Popular in Kentucky, not so, farther North. 



Fruit, medium to very large ; form, at North, regular roundish, tapering 

 to the eye South, always angular, sometimes even broad at apex, being 

 roundish angular, flattened ; color, pale yellow, ground mostly overspread 

 with rich, warm rea and russet, marbled and splashed with bronzed yellow 

 near the stem, dark yellow russet spots surrounded with a lighter shade ; 

 stem, short; cavity, narrow; calyx, small, segments erect; basin, abrupt, 

 pretty deep, round and even, occasionally shallow ; flesh, yellowish, tender, 

 mild sub-acid, much resemblimg Westfield Seek-no-further; core, medium, 

 marked at distance with a line encircling ; seeds, varying, generally ovate. 

 January to April. 



PUMPKIN SWEET. 



Pound Sweet, 



Lyman's Pumpkin Sweet, 



French's Sweet, 

 Yankee Apple. 



An old Connecticut fruit, valued for baking. In wet soils or neavy clay, 

 liable to be watered-cored. Bears regularly, and evenly distributed. Fruit, 

 large, roundish, ribbed at base yellowish green, whitish dots and streaks ; 

 stem, short ; cavity, deep greenish, russeted ; calyx, small ; basin, irregular ; 

 Jlesh, white tender, sweet ; " good." September to November. 



RAMBO. 



Romanite, I Seek-no-further, 



Bread and Cheese Apple, | Terry's Bed Streak. 



American. A native of Delaware, it succeeds in all soils and locations, 

 and has no superior, as a whole, in the general estimation. It succeeds on 

 sandy soils, but the largest and best fruit is grown on strong limestone soils, 

 giving evidence of the food suited best to it, clay or loam. 



Fruit, medium ; form, flat, or roundish flattened, sometimes ribbed or 

 angular ; color, yellowish white, marbled and streaked with yellow and 



