34 WESTERN FRUIT BOOK. 



Illinois it is subject to blight. In Southern Ohio and 

 Indiana it is too large and less solid, and is often russety. 

 It, there, ripens too early for a Winter fruit, but still fine. 



Eve Apple, of the Irish, or Early June, Eggtop, etc., etc. 

 Color, green, red in sun ; form, roundish, oblong, conical ; 

 size, 3; quality, 2 to 3; season, July. 



Eemarks. — An inferior fruit. Its shape is very long 

 and singular. 



Fahnestock's Sweeting. 



Eemarks. — "Handsome shaped Summer apple." — Trans. 

 Ohio Pom. Society. 



Fall Bough. 



" Little known, not approved." — Trans. Ohio Pomological 

 Society. 



FALL PIPPIN, sometimes called Golden Pippin. Color, 

 green and yellow; form, roundish, conical, somewhat flat- 

 tened : size, 1 ; use, table ; quality, 1 ; season, September 

 to December. 



Eemarks. — Extensively grown in the West. Tender, 

 sub-acid, aromatic. "Not Holland Pippin. Large, hand- 

 some and good." — Trans. Ohio Pom. Society. Is good about 

 Cincinnati, and highly esteemed. It ripens gradually. 

 Does not keej) long. The Holland Pippin often con- 

 founded with it; but as the Ohio Pom. Society states 

 above, not the same. Downing wonderfully suggested 

 that these apples might be confounded. They are not at all 

 alike. The Fall Pippin drops badly from old trees. More 

 open at the eye than the Holland Pippin. Yery good. 

 " Excellently well adapted to the locality of Cincin- 

 nati." — F. G. Gary, President Cincinnati Horticultural 

 Society for 1856. 



