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Mill apple, from Mr Peter Fay, of Southboro', large, 

 round, irregular formed, of a dull red color ; flesh tender, 

 flavor fine, with a good and sufficient proportion of acid. 

 Ripe "in October and November. 



Another large red striped fruit, received from Dr Burnett, 

 will be reported on another occasion. 



Yellow Gilliflower, from Mr Eden Davis, rather large, 

 round, slightly ribbed or Calville formed ; a clear straw color, 

 flesh breaking ; juice sweet, relieved by a pleasant acid, a 

 beautiful and excellent fruit of superior flavor. Oct. Nov. 



Miller apple from the same source, above medium size, 

 slightly ribbed, inclining to red next the sun, greenish yellow 

 in the shade, juice sweet, with a pleasant acid, of excellent 

 flavor and highly esteemed where best known. Oct. Nov. 



Much credit is due to the Rev. Mr Ramsdell for his 

 exertions in collecting and forwarding specimens. His 

 collection comprised many very superior varieties. We enu- 

 merate a seedling fruit, much resembling, in appearance, the 

 Yellow Gilliflower before described, flavor good, but not 

 equal to that variety, with a very lively acid, a beautiful fruit. 

 Sweet Winter, a middle sized round fruit, pale red and faint- 

 ly striped next the sun, green in the shade ; sweet, with a 

 slight acid ;. a very productive fruit, which keeps till May. 

 White Sweet is properly "Tolman Sweeting,"' a fine yellow 

 fruit, with a blush next the sun, encircled by two or three 

 distinct black lines from summit to base; flesh breaking, re- 

 lieved by a shght acid ; valuable. Pomme Water, a very 

 large and noted sweet fruit, fine for cooking, color green, with 

 a faint blush ; stalk very short and sunk deep ; the tree bears 

 abundantly. In eating in March. Tift sweeting, a w^ell known 

 and valuable winter fruit, but not handsome. American ap- 

 ple, a very uncommon large fruit for cooking, of tolerable 

 flavor, keeps till January. A green apple without name, a 

 pleasant fruit ; also, Pomme Royal, a fruit of most delicious 

 flavor : — has been noticed in former reports. Winter Green- 



