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Golden Keioette. 



SYNONYMS. 



German (ioldon Reinelte. 

 Kirke's Golden Keinette. 

 Reinette Giclen, of the German.^. 

 Reinetto Dore. ) r> i /• , i 



Reinette Jaune tardive. \ '^'""'' ^"^"^'^S'"'-^- 

 Princess Noble, and many others. 



T.118 Apple is a great favorite in Eng- 

 lartd, and more particularly on the Conti- 

 nent of Europe, and like all other general 

 favorites, is well furnished with a variety 

 of names. It has fruited with us for three 1 

 years past, and we are now able to recom- 

 mend it to orchardists and amateur fruit 

 growers as a truly excellent and valuable 

 sort. Mr. Ellwanger imported our tree 

 from Germany some seven years ago. — 

 ►Since it commenced bearing it has borne 

 an enormous crop every year, more than 

 iialf the fruit having to be thinned off. — 

 The tree grows vigorously. Ours is on a 

 paradise stock, on which it does well ; but we are sure it will do just as well as a standard. — 

 It is noticed, but not figured, in Douming's Fruit and Fni/i Trees, page 129, (not 121 as the 

 index has it.) We quota below the remarks and description, as being strictly correct: 



'"Tlie Golden Reinette is a very popular dessert fruit in England and on the continent, combining beauty and high 

 fl.ivor. It is yet but little known here. 



" Fruit below medium size, very regularly formed, roundisli. a little flattened. Skin smooth, greenish, — becoming 

 golden yellow in the shade, wa.slied and striped with fine soft red, on the sunny side, mingled with scattered, russet 

 dot.?, ytalk long, and inserted moderately deep. Calyx large, set in a broad, but shallow basin. Flesh yellow, crisp, 

 with a rich, sugary, or scarcely acid juice. October to January." 



The London Horticultural Society's Catalogue says it is "a handsome, regularly formed, and 

 excellent dessert fruit, of first rate excellence; trees good bearers."' 



The Earl) Joe Apple. 



This is a seedling Apple of Western N. York, 

 originated in Bloomfield, Ontario county, in the 

 orchard of Oliver Chapin, Esq., of that place. 

 It was first brought to Rochester by Judge 

 Strong, who has had it bearing for a number of 

 years; and it is now in the course of being dis- 

 semminated as fast as scions or trees can be pro- 

 cured. 



We have had an opportunity of learning the 

 opinions of a large number of our best fruit 

 growers and connosieurs, as to the merits of this 

 fruit, and, without a single exception, they have 

 pronounced it f/te finest of it-t season. W. R. 



Smith says in the Horticulturist — "It may safe- 

 ly be set down as the best of any season." For 

 our own part, we can say, that, although it par- 

 takes of a deficiency, common, more or less, to 

 many of our American Apples, that of high fa- 

 vor, yet we have never tasted an apple more 

 agreeable to our taste. 



It merits a prominent place among first class 

 fruits, such as Dutchess of Oldenbiirgh, Grav- 

 ensiein, St. Lawrence, Porter, Sfc. The tree 

 while young is moderately vigorous, but when 

 it attains a bearing size the growth is very slow ; 

 it is a regular fine beai-er, and under careful cul- 

 ture the fruit is generally perfect and beautiful. 



Fruit rather below medium size ; round and 

 regularly formed — some specimens flattened ; 

 skin, smooth, of a beautifiil bright red color, 

 with stripes of darker in a pale yellowish ground; 

 the whole surface covered with a delicate bloom, 

 like a plum-stalk, short, set in a pretty deep, reg- 

 ular cavity ; calyx small, closed, in a shallow 

 basin slightly furrowed ; flesh white, tender and 

 melting, like a fine pear ; flavor delicate and 

 pleasant. 



The English language is a great puzzle. — 

 Thus, one man maybe engaged in "sealing" on 

 the water — anotlier in "ceiling" a room — anoth- 

 er in "sealing" a letter, according to the best 

 rules of Murray. 



