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Rhode Island Greening. This apple is nearly as popular 

 with many, and is almost as well known, as the Baldwin. 



Larg-e Yelloiv Bell Floiver — Minister — Svmrr. These three 

 varieties are great bearers, and worthy of cultivation ; they are 

 late keeping sorts, but require to be gathered with care, as 

 they bruise easily, particularly the Minister. 



Jonathan, a fine winter apple of good size, highly recom- 

 mended by the late Judge Buel, who cultivated it extensively. 



Peck's Pleasant. This apple, ripening from November to 

 March, has been long cultivated in Rhode Island, and there 

 considered a first rate fruit. It resembles, in form, the Aunt 

 Hannah ; it is, however, a larger apple. The tree is a moderate 

 grower, bears well annually, and is altogether worthy of cul- 

 ture. 



Ribstone Pippin. This is one of the best apples in England, 

 standing at the head of their winter varieties. It requires a 

 deep and rich soil. We saw this fruit under culture, on the 

 grounds of a Mr. Abbott, in South Andover, where it bore 

 well, the fruit large and fair, the trees under good culture, and 

 the soil was highly manured. It being the only instance in 

 which we have witnessed the culture of this English sort, we 

 caimot speak confidently of its success in our county. 



Ladies' Sweeting, This winter fruit keeps, like the Danvers 

 Winter Sweet, late, without shrivelling, but we cannot coincide 

 with Mr. Downing, in its superiority over the Danvers Sweet. 

 The small nursery trees we have thought rather tender, having 

 suffered more with us than many others. It is, however, con- 

 sidered by many cultivators, an acquisition to our fine winter 

 sweeting apples. 



Aunt Hannah. This fine apple, in flavor resembling the 

 celebrated Newtown Pippin, as grown in Long Island and in 

 New Jersey, we can commend to cultivators, although of small 

 medium size, as heretofore grown upon old trees in poor soil ; 

 yet upon young and thrifty stocks, and upon a strong and well 

 manured land, they will grow to a good medium size. ' This 

 apple is like the Newtown Pippin in form, hence a member of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, on our first exhibit- 

 ing these apples at their weekly shows, pronounced them 

 " small specimens of that variety," also as their flavor was of 

 the same richness. The Aunt Hannah originated in this 



