MOST GENERALLY ESTEEMED. 



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Size, small to medium ; form, roundish ovate, tapering much toward the 

 eye; color, generally rich golden yellow, overspread with soft russet, and 

 in sun, a marbling of red; stem, slender; cavity, narrow, regular; calyx. 

 small, closed ; basin, shallow, sometimes furrowed ; flesh, yellowish, tender, 

 juicy, almost buttery, delicate, sprightly; core, large for size of fruit; seeds, 

 full, ovate pyramidal. December to March. November to January, South, 



Canadian Eeinette, 

 Porame de Caen, 

 Ecinette Grosse du Canada, 

 De Bretagne, 



CANADA REINETTE. 



Januarea, 

 German Green, 

 Eeinette du Canada, 

 | Grosse Keinette d'Angleterre, 



Yellow Newtown Pippin, erroneously. 



Eeinette da Canada Blanche, 

 Eeinette du Canada a'Cortea, 

 Portugal, 

 Wahr Eeinette, 



Foreign. Tree, strong, vigorous, upright, spreading, productive, very 

 hardy. Size, large ; form, roundish, flattened, irregularly angular, much 

 ribbed, sometimes almost oblong and smooth ; color, light greenish-yellow, 

 a blush in sun, and small dark green specks, surrounded with light green, 

 suffused beneath the skin ; stem, short ; cavity, narrow, slightly russeted ; 

 calyx, large ; basin, deep, angular, with prominent ribs : flesh, yellowish 

 white, crisp, tender, juicy, sub-acid, sprightly; core, small, compact; seeds, 

 dark, almost black. January to May. 



CARNATION. 



Fruit, medium size ; a delicious sub-acid apple, fully first-rate ; color, dark- 

 J, splashed with russet ; flesh, white, brittle, and very juicy ; both the calyx 



and stem are sunk in deep depressions: no Autumn apple is superior 



August, at South. 



red 



