Fruit large, conical flattened. Skin thin, snnooth, in the shade 

 greenish or pale yellow, in the sun covered with light and dark 

 stripes of puri)lish-red, marked with a few pale dots, and a thin, 

 while bloom. Stalk three-fourths of an inch long, rather slender, 

 planted in a very wide, deep cavity, marked with russet. Calyx 

 small, closed; basin narrow, abrupt, furrowed. Flesh white, 

 fine-gr.iined, tender, slightly sub-acid, with a peculiarly fresh and 

 delicious flavor." — Downing. 



Those who would go beyond the above descriptive 

 list can select from the following kinds those that will 

 prove satisfactory and profitable. 



Benoni, Summer Rose, William's Earl?/ Red, Pumpkin 

 Sweeting, Shaker's Pipinn of Pineo,Ly scorn, Maiden's Blush, 

 lluhhardston Nonsuch, Leland's Spice, Esopiis Spizcnlmrg, 

 Broadwell, Rihstone Pippin, and Danvars Winter Sweet- 

 ing. The Red and Yellotv Siberian Crah apples are or- 

 namental and fine for preserving. 



APEICOTS. 

 These require a warm situation and a protection of 

 straw in the winter in our latitude. They are well 

 adapted to wall training. They should be budded up- 

 on Plum stocks and headed in during the month of 

 August. When budded on the Plum, it does best on 

 strong, moist soils. "The fruit resembles that of a 

 peach externally; the stone is like that of a plum, 

 and the flesh of some kinds seems to be intermediate 

 between the two." 



Breda. — Fruit rather small, its general form roundish, but often 

 approaching to be somewhat four-sided. The Suture is moderate- 

 ly deep, with a depression at its termination on the summit The 

 Skin, where exposed to the sun, is of a deep, brownish orange. — 

 Flesh deep orange, parting freely from the stone, juicy, rich, and 

 high flavored. Stone rather small, roundish, compressed, but not 

 so much as in some others. Kernel sweet, like a hazel-nut. Ri- 

 pens from the beginning to the middle of August." 



MooRPARK. — "Fruit large, of a roundish figure, about seven 

 inches and a half in circumference each way, deeply hollowed at 

 the base, and compressed on its sides, one of which is swelled 

 considerably more than the other at the suture, which gives it an 

 oblique appearance. Skin pale yellow on the shaded side, but of 

 a deep orange color, shaded and marbled with brownish red on the 

 side next the sun, and full of dark specks. Flesh very firm, bright 

 orange, separating clean from the stone. Juice plentiful and ex- 



