2c8 Hardy Apples. — Siberians. 



brown ; flesh 3ello\v, firm, rather juicy ; flavor sub-acid, aromatic. Use, 

 kitchen and dessert ; quality good ; season^ winter, and till spring in the 

 North. 



This variety promises to be of great benefit to our Northern settlers, as 

 it will extend the season for several months. Though in more favored 

 climes it may be despised by the fastidious as only a crab-apple, yet in 

 hyperborean regions the emigrant will welcome its presence with delight 

 as a passable tree, an abundant crop, and good winter-fruit for both dessert 

 and culinary purposes. 



The Marengo was described by Mr. Elliott in " The Hortxulturist " for 

 May, 1868, p. 136. He calls it "quite rich and quite good " for those 

 who live where Jonathan and Fameuse cannot be grown and kept; "but. 



Whitney's No. 24 (deep red). Lady Crab. 



for the extreme North, it may prove as valuable as the Shockley is to the 

 Southern States." 



No. 2 Chicago (syn., Chicago Winter Crab). — Fruit oblong, regular, not 

 large, but " the specimens are under size this year ; " surface smooth, yellow, 

 blushed and obscurely striped light red ; dots rather small ; basin shallow ; 

 eye small, closed ; calyx reflexed ; cavity medium, regular ; stem long, slen- 

 der ; core medium, closed, meeting the eye ; seeds numerous, long, angular ; 

 flesh yellow, firm, juicy ; flavor almost sweet, rich, agreeable ; quality pretty 

 good for eating. Use, kitchen ; season, September, October, and later. 



No. 4 Coral. — Named from the village near which it was produced; 

 equally applicable to its color. Fruit globular to oblong, regular, of good 

 size ; surface smooth, yellow, bluslied scarlet ;, dots nurrverous, gray or 



