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sometimes, though Avhen sound and healthy always 1 ; 

 season, IS'ovember to January. 



Remarks. — One of the best cooking apples, and quite 

 rich for table when ripe. Except with Mr. W, Orange, 

 who grows it on a sloping ground, with a north-east 

 asjDCCt, it is too large and spongy in these parts, becoming 

 russety. It here generally falls and decaj^s badly. Yery 

 different in Ehode Island, and elsewhere, to what it is 

 here. There a very tine and valuable apple. Requires a 

 very rich soil, the lime and phosphates, Avhich is j^robably 

 the reason it does not do well Avith us (Cincinnati), being 

 subject to bitter rot. •• Highly approved, but liable to rot 

 and speck in most localities, West." — Trans. Ohio Fom. 

 Society. Flesh, rich yellow. Grows well in the Xorth in 

 a thin sand. It varies much in different localities. With 

 Mr. Petticolas it has done very well so far, bearing good 

 crops of fine apples. Rather tart for the dessert, but 

 excellent for cooking. None of the Eastern apples are so 

 compact, here, as there, but they are generally larger and 

 more spongy. It sells well. 



Mihston Pippin^ Glory of Yorh^ Travers, and Formosci, or 

 Beautiful Pippin. Color, greenish yellow, russet near the 

 stem, dull red in the sun ; size, 2 ; use, table and kitchen ; 

 season, October to January. 



Remarks. — The finest apple in England. The flesh, 

 there, rich, firm, yellow, aromatic sub-acid. Yaluable in 

 Northern regions, a failure in the South, or Central. 

 "English, excellent in some localities, chiefly North." — 

 Trans. Ohio Pom. Society. " Does not equal, by any means, 

 and at a long distance, its European and Northern char- 

 acter, in the West." — Dr. J. A. Warder (one of our best 

 pomologists). Doubtful if Ave have this apj^le genuine. 

 There is a great difference of opinion on that subject. 

 The specimens we have seen here, are so different from 



