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accticut, where it is deemed one of the best of 

 winter fruits. Large, flat, with dull red stripes 

 next the sun. Eye large and in a deep cavity 

 Flavour equal to the Baldwin. Keeps till 

 March. 



67. Dunvers* Winter Street, or Epses Sweet. 

 Large and beautiful. Colour bright yellow 

 with a faint blush next the sun. Fine for des- 

 sert and baking. Native of Danvers, and a 

 popular market fruit. 



74. Golden Ball. Size rather above medium ; 

 ribbed at the sides ; colour golden yellow. A 

 very popular apple in Maine. 



81. Lmiy Jlpplc, or Pomme D'Api. Very 

 small ami beautiful. Skin bright and yellow, 

 with a red blush on the sunny side. Novem- 

 ber. Keeps till March. 



85. Miniver. Large, oblong, and tapering 

 towards the eye, like the Bellflower, with large 

 ribs, or cal in lie-formed ; striped, with bright 

 red on aground of pale greenish-yellow. Flesh 

 yellow and hisjh flavoured. Esteemed by Man- 

 ning one of the first fruits New England has 

 ever produced. November to January. Origin, 

 Rowley, Massachusetts. 



86. Late Pui'ml >Vr//. Very large; form flat- 

 toned. Colour pale yellow. Origin Vermont 



87. Mila Cnrln, or Malcarle, Charles Apple, 

 Pomme Ferivale. One of the most famous of 

 fruits; size rather large; form globular, but 

 slightly ovate. Eye and slender stem both in- 

 serted into deep cavities. Skin beautiful waxen, 

 a little marbled with faint green near the eye. 

 Splendid crimson colour on the sunny side. 

 Flesh white, delicate sweet, with rose perfume. 

 September. Keeps till spring. In Italy this 

 is considered the best of all apples in the world. 

 It is there cultivated extensively for exporta- 

 tion. Near Boston, this apple proves good but 

 not excellent. 



88. Monstrous Pippin, or New York Gloria 

 M'indi ; a fruit of uncommon size. Colour 

 yellow with numerous spots of white ; eye 

 very deep. Excellent for cooking. Origin, 

 Loir.: Island. 



JO. Murphy. A large and splendid fruit, re- 

 sembling in appearance the Blue Pearmain, 

 but more oblong and rather smaller. Colour 

 pale red, streaked or blotched with darker red, 

 and covered with bloom. Keeps till February. 

 Origin, Salem, Massachusetts. 



M. Poirnnl Spitzenberg. Origin, Vermont. 

 Resembles the ^Esopus Spitzenberg, and high- 

 ly esteemed. 



97. Ramsdell's Red Pumpkin Sweet ; a beauti- 

 ful fruit; over medium size ; round or oblong; 

 colour a dark and beautiful red, covered with 

 a dense blue bloom. The tree a prodigious 

 bearer, native of Connecticut. Fruit saleable 

 and profitable : keeps till January. 



98. Rhode Island Greening; Jersey or Bur- 

 lington Greening ; a very large apple, flattened 

 at both ends ; colour yellowish green at matu- 

 rity, covered with dark clouds or blotches ; 

 ripens in September, and keeps till March. A 

 highly esteemed and profitable fruit. Tree 

 bears abundantly every other year, and, in 

 the New England States, is preferred for its 

 productiveness to the Green Newtown Pip- 

 pin. 



99. Ribston Pippin, also called Formosa Pip- 

 pin, and Glory of York ; in England esteemed 

 very highly; medium size, and globular form; 

 colour pale yellow, mottled with red next the 

 sun. Keeps till February. 



100. Red Seek-No-Farther. A large round 

 fruit, contracted towards the summit; colour 

 fine deep red ; flavour sweet and excellent. 

 Keeps till March. A Rhode Island fruit. 



101. Roxbury Russeiing. A fine old native of 

 Massachusetts ; fruit large and of a slightly 

 flattened form ; colour, brownish yellow russet, 

 with an occasional blush next the sun ; skin 

 rough. Keeps well till June and July. Raised 

 in great quantities near Boston, for exporta 

 tion, &c. 



102. Scolloped Gillyflower. Said by good judges 

 to far excel the Black Gillyflower, and much 

 resembling the Cornish variety. 



103. Swaar. This and the Jonathan apple 

 are esteemed equal, at least, if not superior to, 

 the Newtown Pippins and Spitzenbergs. Size, 

 medium ; shape, round ; skin, greenish yellow, 

 with a blush next the sun, and thickly dotted 

 with brown specks, intermixed with some scar- 

 let Keeps till April. 



104. Whi'e Spitzenberg. A beautiful, fair, and 

 fine flavoured fruit, about the size of the ^Eso- 

 pus Spitzenberg. Keeps all winter, and sells 

 well in the Albany market. 



105. ]l-lne Jlpple, or Hay's Apple ; also called 

 Large Winter Red, and Fine Winter. F/uit 

 very large and beautiful ; colour, bright red on. 

 the sunny side, with sometimes a few stripes 

 and blotches of yellow on the shady side. 

 Flesh rich and excellent Keeps till February 

 and March. Tree very productive, and fruit 

 very saleable in the Philadelphia market. 



106. Winter Sireeting ; called also Seaver 

 Sweeting, and Grafton Sweeting. Fruit large, 

 round and conical; colour, pale yellow, with a 

 blush on the sunny side. Flesh yellow, sweet 

 and fine-flavoured. Keeps till March. 



107. Winter White Calville, or Bonnet Carre. 

 Fruit large and of a bright yellow colour, with 

 a bright red blush on the sunny side ; form 

 rather flat and ribbed ; flesh white, tender, and 

 pleasant. Keeps till March. 



108. Yellow Newtown Pippin. A large flat 

 fruit, of a bright yellow colour, and faint blush 

 next the sun. Keeps all winter, and flourishes 

 better in the New England states than the 

 Green Variety. 



CELEBRATED CIDER APPLES CULTIVATED iw 

 THE UNITED STATES. 



109. Harrison, or Long Stem. A native of 

 Essex, New Jersey. The celebrated Newark 

 cider is made from this apple ; one tree in Es- 

 sex county, New Jersey, produced 100 bushels 

 in one year, and 10 bushels make a barrel of 

 cider, which will yield 14 quarts of brandy. 

 The fruit is below the medium size, rather 

 long, and deeply indented at the ends ; stem 

 very long ; colour yellow, covered with black 

 spots. Fruit ripens 1st of November. Flesh 

 yellow, firm, tough, and dry. 



110. Taliafero. A Virginia fruit, about the 

 size of a grape-shot, or from I to 2 inches ic 

 diameter; colour white, streaked with red. 



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