APPLES. 77 



conical, scolloped, or ribbed ; size, 1 ; use, table ; quality, 

 2 ; season, November to December. 



Eemarks. — An early Winter fruit, of fair quality. IS'ot 

 equal, however, to many others of its season. Little^ 

 known here (Cincinnati). 



Rrd Streak, or Early Red SlreaJc. Color, red striped ; 

 form round ; size, 2 ; use, kitchen ; season, July. 



Eemarks. — Exhibited by many at the Cincinnati Hor- 

 ticultural Societj^'s Rooms. Fruit Committee consider it 

 poor. '^ Unworthy." — Dr. Warder. Pennsylvania Eed 

 Streak is synonymous with Hay's Eed Winter. Eed 

 Streak is also applied to some other fruits. An early, 

 coarse, tart, rich-looking apple, with heavy bloom. Good 

 for cooking. Sells remarkably well. Two trees, planted 

 twelve years, brought Mr. Petticolas twenty-six dollars, 

 or thirteen dollars to the tree. It bears full crops in 

 alternate years, and half a crop the other. 



EED ASTEACHAN. Color, deep red; form, flat, 

 roundish ; size, 2 ; use, kitchen ; quality, 1 ; season, August. 



Eemarks. — "Valuable for early market." — Trans. Ohio 

 Pom. Society. This will prove, when better known, a 

 valuable fruit. Tart, but good when cooked with sugar. 

 A productive and early bearer. A very beautiful, early 

 apple. In 1855 they came in before Prince's Harvest, 

 and sold well. They bear on alternate years only, and 

 are long coming into bearing. The tree is quite orna- 

 mental. 



Red and "Long Pearmain^ same as, or synonymous with 

 Kaighns Spitzenhurg, also Long John, and Scarlet Pearmain. 



Eemarks. — A cooking apple. Bears every other year. 

 An inferior apple, not worth cultivating. 



