MOST GENERALLY ESTEEMED. 



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American. Native of Rhode Island; its name from a family by name 

 if Talman. Its value is for baking and stock feeding. Tree, great bearer, 

 fruit keeping well; growth, rapid, upright, strong; wood, dark. 



Fruit, medium ; forvi, roundish, slightly conical ; color, light yellow, 

 with a greenish line from stem to apex ; stem, long, slender ; cavity, wide, 

 regular ; calyx, medium ; basin, moderate depth, furrowed ; Jlesh, white, 

 firm, very sweet ; core, medium ; seeds, light brown, ovate pointed. Novem- 

 ber to April. 



Tift's Sweet. 



American. Tree, moderate grower; productive. Fruit, medium, round- 

 ish flattened, greenish yellow with slight net-work of russet ; stem, slender; 

 cavity, varying ; calyx, closed ; basin, deep ; segments, long ; core, small ; 

 Jlesh, yellow, firm, sweet, rich, very best for baking. September, Novem- 

 ber. , 



Vandervere. 



Vandervere Pippin, 

 Eed Vandervere, 

 Fall Vandervere, 

 Yellow Vandervere, 



Baltimore, of some incorrectly^ 

 Imperial Vandervere, 

 Pennsylvania Vandervere, 

 Striped Vandervere, 



Staalclubs, 



Watson's Vandervere, 



White Wine, of some. 



American. Native of Delaware. For other synonyms heretofore used in 

 connection with this variety, see '• Newtown Spitzenberg," page 94, Gray 

 Vandervere, page 82, and Smokehouse, page 109. We do not think the true 

 Vandervere has ever been grown to any extent east of Pennsylvania. 



The tree is a free grower, productive, and early bearer. Grown on soils 

 deficient in lime, like many of our Western bottoms, and some of prairie, it 

 has always more or less of dry bitter rot, but, when supplied with lime, 

 the rot disappears, the fruit increases in size, and improves in quality ; 

 needs good culture. Grown North, it is smaller in size, and much more 

 conical, and less highly-colored than South. Young shoots, spotted. 



