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THE APPLE. 



American. Native of Newtown, Long Island. It requires a rich lime- 

 stone clay soil, or a warm, sandy, rich loam, well dressed with lime and 

 bone dust, in order to secure healthy wood, and fair, smooth fruit. On 

 sandy soils, abounding more or less with iron, we have never seen good 

 fruit grown of this variety. It is distinct in fruit from the Yellow Newtown 

 Pippin, for which see further pages ; but it is difficult, if not impossible to 

 detect one from the other by the wood. Growth slender, slow ; as an 

 orchard tree, a fine round head, with branches diverging, pendent. On the 

 rich limestone soils of Ohio, and farther west, this and the Yellow New- 

 town Pippin succeed, and produce fruit even superior to the world-renowned 

 Pell Orchard. 



Fruity medium ; form^ roundish, oblong flattened ; color, dull green when 

 first gathered, becoming, when ripe, a yellowish green ; small minute rus- 

 set dots, with occasional spots or blotches of russet, and, grown on alluvial 

 soils South, patches of dark green mould : stem, slender ; cavity, acuminate, 

 regular; calyx, small ] basin, deep, abrupt, hollowed, and slightly wrinkled; 

 flesh, greenish white, very fine-grained, juicy, crisp, sprightly, perfumed ; 

 core J compact ; seeds, dark brown, ovate. February to May. 



Newtown Spitzenberg. 



Spiced Ox-eye, 



Ox-eye, 



Burlington Spitzenberg, 



Matchless, 

 Kountz, 



Joe Berry, 



Yandervere of New York, and 

 Eastern States. 



Ameiican. From Newtown, Long Island. Originally described by 

 Coxe, in 1817. It is extensively and successfully grown in the West as 

 Ox- Eye, und highly estimated. When Mr. Downing wrote his description 

 of Vandervere, he evidently had this apple before him ; and was not ac- 

 quainted with the true Vandervere. 



Fruit, medium ; form, round, flattened ; color, yellow ground, mostly 

 striped and splashed with red, which often has appearance as of a bloom; 

 russet dots and lines that near the calyx look like the crests of waves ; 

 Tfem, long, slender ; cavity, narrow, deep, regular ; calyx, small, segments 



