68 WESTERN FRUIT book:. 



the North, a richer yellow more South, with some specks 

 of dark red ; form, oblong oval, sometimes roundish con- 

 ical ; size, large, or ISTo. 1 on rich soils; use, table; qual- 

 ity, 1 ; season, JSTovember to March. 



Eemarks. — " One of the most agreeable and digestible 

 of all apples, with a mild, sub-acid, abundant juice, witli- 

 out any remarkable or high flavor." — Trans. Ohio Pom. 

 Society. Excellent in strong soils. This is one of our 

 prime favorites. Thrifty, productive, delicate, certainly- 

 not highly flavored, but most easy of digestion. Its size 

 is much increased in the West. Originally from New 

 Jersey. 



Oslin. 



Eemarks. — Not yet known. 



OX APPLE, or Ox Eyc^ and Joe Beri-y ; see Ncwtoum 

 Spitzenburg . 



Remarks. — A delicious apple, as before described, but 

 drops worse than any apple we have. By the time they 

 are ripe they are all gone, not only on old, but young 

 trees. We can not recommend it on that account, but 

 it may do better in some soils. A neighbor, whose trees 

 are all dead from age, etc., did not remark that fault. 



Peach Pond Sweet. Color, striped red and yellow ; 

 form, oblong; size, 2; use, table; quality, 1 ; season, early 

 Sej)tember to last of October. 



Eemarks. — A great bearer. A favorite dessert apple 

 of all who taste it. From the orchard of E. Buchanan, 

 Esq., Clifton, Cincinnati. 



PennocJcs Red Winter^ or Fhoenix, by some, the same as 

 the Large Eomanite, of Kentucky. Color, red ; form, 

 roundish flattened, almost invariably one-sided ; size, 1 ; 



