WINTER APPLES. CLASS I. 71 



56. *BALDWIN. 



This capital variety is a native of Massachusetts ; a 

 large, beautiful, and famous fruit. The tree grows vigor- 

 ous, upright, and handsome. The fruit is round, of a pale 

 color in the shade, fine scarlet or crimson next the sun, 

 sometimes red on every side ; the flesh is white, breaking, 

 juicy, rich, saccharine, with a most agreeable acid, and 

 excellent flavor. The tree bears enormously every other 

 year, arid in the interval, occasionally a moderate crop. 



No apple in the vicinity of Boston is so popular as this, 

 at the present day. It is raised in large quantities for the 

 market. It ripens in November, and may be preserved till 

 February, and March, and is recommended for extensive 

 cultivation. 



57. BALTIMORE. Hort. Trans. Vol. in. p. 120. 



A remarkably large apple, raised by Mr. Smith, near the 

 city of Baltimore. A large specimen measured in circum- 

 ference fourteen inches and three quarters, and in height 

 four inches ; its weight twenty-three ounces and a half; 

 its form flat ; skin a pale citron, with a faint blush next 

 the sun ; flesh well-flavored, and close at the core. 



58. *BEAUTY OF THE WEST. Judge Buel 



" A very large, fair, and fine-flavored sweet apple, pre- 

 sented to me by Mr. Morgan, in January, and kept till 

 March." A large, round, beautiful fruit, yellow mixed 

 with red, juicy and fine, as proved with us. 



59. *BELLFLOWER. 



YELLOW BELLFLOWER. 



A large and beautiful fruit, of an oblong or conical 

 form ; of a bright yellow color, with an occasional blush 

 next the sun ; the flesh tender, juicy, rich, and finely- 

 flavored, and alike excellent for the dessert or for cooking. 

 It ripens in November, and will keep all winter. The 

 pericarpium at maturity is very large, and the seeds rattle 

 when shaken. 



60. BELMONT. 



A new and very beautiful fruit, of first-rate quality. It 

 was raised in Belmont, Ohio. Specimens brought from 

 Rockport, Cayuga county, in Ohio, were sent to the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society in January, 1834, by 

 Charles Olmstead, Esq., of East Hartford, Conn. It is large, 

 round, but broadest at the base ; the stalk is short ; of a 



