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blossom its appearance is highly ornamental, and when la- 

 den with fruit it resembles a large lemon or citron tree. 



Japan Quince. (Cydonia Japonica.) 



This, which until recently has been regarded merely as a 

 flowering shrub, of late bears fruit in abundance, which 

 is principally valuable for marmalades. 



APPLES. 



No. 232. Baldwin. Manning. Downing, etc. 



Baldwin's. Hort. Soc. cat. No. 32. 



This fine apple is well known and highly esteemed in 

 the Eastern states where it is extensively cultivated as a 

 table fruit and keeping apple. The grafts were sent us by 

 Salmon Lyman, Esq., of Manchester, Conn. 



It is of American origin and thus described : " Of me- 

 dium size, the form round. The skin mostly of a brilliant 

 red, with some indistinct yellow streaks; in some situations 

 a large proportion of yellow. The flesh is very fine, crisp, 

 juicy, and rich. It bears abundantly every other year, 

 keeps well through the winter, and though so common it 

 will bear comparison with the finest of the new varities."* 



233. Chandler. Downing. 



This fme fruit, it is said, originated in the town of Pom- 

 fret, Conn. Fruit, large, roundish, slightly flattened and 

 one-sided, or angular in its form ; obscuredly ribbed on 

 the sides, skin thickly streaked, and overspread with dull 

 red, (with a few streaks of brighter red,) on a greenish 

 yellow ground, the red sprinkled with light gray dots. 

 White, tender, and juicy ; with a moderately rich sub-acid 

 flavor. Nov. to Feb. f 



♦The New England Fruit Book, by Robert Manning. Second Edition. Bos- 

 ton 1844. 



t Downing. " Fruit, and Fruit Trees of America, by A, J. Downing, 1845 " 



