WINTER APPLES. CLASS I. 75 



76. HARTFORD SWEETING. 



Sometimes called Spencer Stceeting, or Champ Sweeting, 

 A fine, large, and beautiful fruit, of a red color ; there are 

 few so fair; the flesh tender, juicy, and sweet. It remains 

 fine till June. This fruit originated near Hartford, Conn., 

 and was introduced to Boston by Dr. E. W. Ball, of that 

 city. The tree grows slow and pendulous. It bears well. 



39. *MONMOUTH PIPPIN. 



Large, handsome, and very superior ; of excellent flavor. 

 The tree bears abundant crops, and the fruit is one of the 

 most salable, productive, and profitable of Monmouth 

 county, N. J., from whence I received the fruit. Winter. 



201. *MARSTON'S RED WINTER. 



New, rather large, and beautiful ; of roundish form ; 

 covered with bright red and streaks of pale red ; of a sweet 

 or sufoacid and excellent flavor. The tree is productive, 

 and the fruit keeps till April. A superior variety, which 

 originated in Greenland, near Portsmouth, N. H. 



78. *HUBBARDSTON NONSUCH. 



A new and most superior variety, which originated in 

 Hubbardston, Mass., and is esteemed very superior to any 

 other fruit known here, which bears the name of Nonsuch. 

 The tree grow vigorous, large, branching, and handsome. 

 A prodigious bearer. The fruit is large, globular, or con- 

 ical ; of a yellow color in the shade, but mostly covered 

 with irregular, small and broken stripes of pale red ; bright 

 red next the sun ; the flesh yellow, juicy, rich, sweet, re- 

 lieved by a slight acid, and excellent. This capital variety 

 ripens in December, and keeps till February, and is recom- 

 mended for general cultivation. 



79. ^JONATHAN. Judge Buel 



PHILIP RICK of the Kingston orchards. 



A new winter fruit, which, for its eminent beauty and 

 excellence, is admired above all others, by good judges, 

 in Albany and its vicinity. The fruit is round, two and 

 a half inches in diameter, regular shaped, the eye in a 

 broad, deep cavity; the stem three fourths of an inch, 

 slender, in a deep, round cavity; the skin thin, pale 

 red, blended with yellow, and deepening into bright 

 red and dark purple next the sun ; flesh very tender, 

 white, occasionally tinged with red ; juice very abundant, 

 rich, and highly-flavored. Named for Jonathan Har- 



