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Apples. 



Russet Pearmain. Size medium, roundish-conical ; faint red stripes 

 on greenish yellow ground ; flesh juicy, tender, rich, fine sub-acid 

 flavor. Through winter. 



Shockley. (Waddel's Hall.) Medium, roundish-oblong, narrowing 

 to the eye ; yellow striped and clouded with red, with dark green- 

 ish russet blotches ; stalk long, slender, cavity narrow, deep ; 

 flesh firm, of good but not high flavor. Georgia. Ripens from 

 Oft. to March. Wm. N. White. 



SMITH'S CIDER. Medium or rather large, roundish-oblong, some- 

 what flattened at the ends. Shaded and slightly striped with light 

 red on pale greenish yellow, with a few conspicuous whitish yel- 

 low dots ; stalk slender, cavity rather deep, calyx large, basin 

 shallow, wrinkled ; flesh whitish, tender, crisp, with a sub-acid, 

 moderate flavor. Grown in Pennsylvania and the Ohio valley. 

 Valued for its hardiness, productiveness, and handsome fair fruit. 



SPITZENBURGH, ESOPUS. Rather large, round-ovate, slightly coni- 

 cal ; surface a high rich red, rather obscurely striped ; stalk three- 



Fig. 2&.Esopus Spitzenburgh. 



fourths of an inch long, rather slender ; basin shallow, slightly 

 furrowed ; flesh yellow, firm, crisp, spicy, rather acid, nearly 



