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THE APPLE. 



top, and had produced large crops ten years in succession. Fruit, medium, 

 roundish flattened, pale clear yellow, bright red cheek, little russet in stem 

 cavity, small dots ; st§m, short ; cavity^ deep : cal]/Xj short segments ; basin, 

 rather deep; core, small; seeds, ovate pointed ; ^esA, tender, juicy, mild 

 sub-acid; "very good." November to March. , 



Garden Royal. 



American. Originated in Mass. Tree, slender, slow grower while young; 

 hardy, and makes a tree of medium size, annually productive ; suited to 

 small orchards or gardens where a delicious fruit is desired for table use. 



Fruit, rather below medium ; form, roundish, inclining to flat, very regu- 

 lar ; color, a yellowish ground, with dull red stripes, becoming brighter in 

 sun ; stem, short, slender : cavity, narrow ; calyx, large, open ; basin, shal- 

 low ; Jlesh, yellowish white, fine-grained, tender, mild, sub-acid. Last of 

 August and September. 



Golden Sweet. 



Orange Sweet. 



American. Originated in Comiecticut. Tree, free grower while young, 

 making, however, an orchard tree of only medium size; spreading, irregulai 

 branches ; succeeds well in all soils ; productive annually of large crops of 

 fair fruit. 



Fruit, medium to large ; form, roundish, rather deeper than wide : colorj 



