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broad, light green, peculiar ; regular annual bearer j in quality about with 

 Bed Astrachan, but maturing some ten days or two weeks earlier ; very 

 valuable for cooking or marketing ; a gross feeder, requiring good soil ; 

 needs little pruning. Our figure does not well represent it. being far too 

 small for an average. 



Fruit, medium j form, roundish, slightly conical; color, light yellow 

 ground, striped and splashed with red, and a beautiful white bloom ; stem, 

 short^ stout ; cavity, deep, furrowed ; calyx, rather large, long segments ; 

 basin, abrupt, deep, irregular, furrowed ; flesh, white, tender, sprightly, 

 juicy,'slightly acid or sharp sub-acid, with a peculiar aromatic taste ; core, 

 small, fleshy ; seeds, plump, light brown. Last of July. 



TEWKSBURY BLUSH. 



Tewksbury "Winter Blush. 



From New Jersey. Tree, rapid, rather upright growth, very productive, 

 always fair, great keeper. Fruit, small, round ovate flattened, yellowish 

 green, with minute russet dots and occasionally a red cheek ; stem, slender; 

 calyx, small ; basin, shallow ; core, medium : seeds, light brown ; flesh, 

 yellowish white, juicy, firm, tender, sub-acid. 'January to August. Fink's 

 Seedling so closely resembles this, as to be by many thought identical. 



TINMOUTH. 



Origin, Tinmouth, Vt. Tree, a good grower and productive. Fruit, 

 above medium, oblate ; skin, whitish yellow, considerably shaded with car 

 mine, and sprinkled with a few brown dots ; stem, short, inserted in a deep 

 cavity; calyx, partially closed, set in a rather large basin : flesh, whitish, 

 juicy, tender, pleasant, mild sub-acid. November to February. 



TOCCOA. 

 Muskmelon. 



Originated Toccoa Falls, Habersham Co., Georgia. Fruit, rather large, 

 conical irregular ; skin, yellow, striped with red ; stem, short, in an irre- 

 gular cavity ; calyx, closed in a small, irregular basin ; flesh, yellow, with 

 a brisk, rich, Spitzenburgh flavor, moderately juicy. First of August. 

 (White's Gard.) 



TOWNSEND. 



From Pennsylvania. Tree, moderately spreading growth, abundant 

 early bearer. Fruit, medium, roundish, pale yellow, overspread and 

 streaked with red in sun, marblings of russet at stem, grayish white dots, 

 rough, blue bloom; stem, slender ; cavity, deep ; calyx, closed ; segments, 

 narrow, in divisions ; basin, abrupt, medium ; core, medium ; seeds, ovate ; 

 flesh, yellowish white, breaking rather dry, sub-acid; "very good." 

 September. This may prove same as Hocking. 



TRENTON EARLY ? 



History unknown. We think it an old English apple belonging to the 

 class of codlins. Our warm suns and rich soils have so improved it that 

 it is often a right good table fruit, and always valuable for cooking. 



Fruit, medium or above, roundish conical, slightly ribbed ; color, yellow- 

 ish, with suffused patches of green ; skin, smooth, oily ; basin, often fur- 

 rowed ; flesh, white, tender, pleasant, sub-acid. July and August. 



