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kitchen at any time during the Winter. ISIear Cincinnati 

 it is subject to be injured and disfigured with hard, black 

 spots, generally considered of vegetable origin, or fungus, 

 but they do not induce decay. ''Newtown Pippin is 

 often inferior. If the stem of this tree is trimmed up 

 to full standard hight, the bark becomes very dry and 

 rough, and the top seems to starve, even in a rielr soil." — • 

 American Pom. Society^ received from reports from Pennsyl- 

 vania. Both the Yellow and the Green Newtown have 

 russet marks at the stalk. 



NEWTOWN SPITZENBUEG, or Flushing. Color, 

 red on yellow; form, round, flattened, often one-sided; 

 size, 1; use, table; quality, 1; season, November to Feb- 

 ruary. 



Eemarks. — " Ox Eye of Cincinnati.'" — Tra is. Ohio Pom. 

 Society. One of the best table fruits we have for Decem- 

 ber. Grown North, it keeps longer, and is neater and 

 smaller, more regular and less wormy, and less liable to 

 fall than with us. It is highly esteemed in the West. 

 How Downing came to call this old ftimiliar fruit Yande- 

 vere, is a wonder. It came from Long Island. Sometimes 

 called Joe Berry, in Kentucky, as well as Ox Eye, at 

 Cincinnati, and in the West. 



Nichajach Apple. 



Remarks. — A Southern fruit, and very good. 



NONSUCH (see Eed Canada), Richfield, or Canada 

 Red. Color, red on yellow; form, roundish conical; 

 size, 2; use, table; quality, 2; season, December to Feb- 

 ruary. 



Remarks. — Superior. Exhibited at Horticultural Soci- 

 ety Rooms by J. E. Mottier. Declared Baldwin, errone- 

 ously. Much grown North. 

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