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and red ; form, oblong ; size, 2 ; use, table ; quality, 2 ; 

 season, August and September. 



Eemarks. — This is our Autumn Seek-no-further. The 

 tree is a slow grower. Branches slender. Flesh crisp, 

 firm, and a little dry. 



AUTUMNAL SWAAE. Color, pale green, sometimes 

 a slight red in sun ; form, roundish ; size, 2 ; use, table ; 

 quality, 1 ; season, October. 



Eemarks. — This is regarded by Dr. Mosher, of La- 

 ton ia Springs, one of our best eating apples. The grain 

 is very fine ; juicy, tender, sprightly, and sub-acid in flesh. 

 If two-thirds of this apple rots, the remainder retains the 

 fine juice and flavor. 



Eailey Spice. Color, yellow ; form, roundish ; size, 2 ; 

 use, table; quality, 2; season, August and September. 



Eemarks. — Fruit always fair at Eochester, 'New York ; 

 moderate growth ; flesh, sprightly; spicy. 



Bailey Sweet, or Patterson Sweet, Edgerly Sweety etc. 

 Color, clear yellowish red, with russet patches ; form, 

 round ovate, flattened ; size 1 ; use, table ; quality, 2. 



Eemarks. — Grown in Northern Illinois, where, as with 

 us, it is beautiful, delicate, sweet, juicy, and rich. 



BALDWIN. Color, red and orange, brilliant ; form, 

 roundish oblate ; size, 1 to 2 ; use, table ; quality, 1 (where 

 it succeeds); season, October to March. 



Eemarks. — Of the ^Esopus Spitzenburg family. It is 

 the great Boston Apple. It is rather subject to rot in 

 Ohio and Kentucky. "Good at the North; sabject to 

 bitter rot at the South." — Trans. Ohio Pom. Soc. In this 

 locality (Cincinnati), not generally successful as a keeper, 

 though sometimes seen very fine in January; generally 



