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THE APPLE. 



LADIES' SWEETING. 



American. We have repeatedly fruited and met with this variety West, 

 where it seems generally to succeed, but varies much in different soils 

 often not more than second-rate quality* always fair, handsome fruit; pro- 

 fitable for marketing, or stock feeding. "Wood, not very strong: grows 

 thriftily; bears abundantly." 



" Fru.il, large, roundish ovate, narrowing rapidly to the eye ; skin, very 

 smooth, nearly covered with red in the sun, pale yellowish green in the 

 shade, with broken stripes of pale red. The red is sprinkled with well- 

 marked yellowish gray dots, and covered, when first gathered, with a thin 

 white bloom. There is also, generally, a faint marbling of cloudy white 

 over the red, on the shady side of the fruit, and rays of the same around 

 the stalk. Calyx, quite small, set in a narrow, shallow-plaited basin; stalk, 

 half an inch long, in a shallow cavity : flesh, greenish white, exceedingly 

 tender, juicy, crisp, delicious, sprightly, agreeably perfumed flavor ; keeps 

 without shelving, or losing its flavor, till May." 



LONDON SWEET. 



London Winter Sweet, | Winter Sweet, I Heicke's Winter Sweet. 



American. Much cultivated in Southern Ohio ; often abundant in Cin- 

 cinnati market. We have been unable to connect it with any other named 

 variety, though it nearest resembles Broadwell. Adapted to the rich deep 

 soils of the West ; annually productive. 



Fruit, medium, occasionally large; form, roundish flattened; color, pale 

 yellow, with rarely an irregular patch of bronzed russet ; very smooth ; 

 grown South, has the fungus or mould, as we think, marring its beauty ; 

 stem, short, slender; cavity, open, medium depth, round, regular; calyx, 

 small, closed ; basin, deep, round, regular: flesh, yellowish white, juicy, 

 tender, pleasantly sweet; core. rather small : seeds, ovate pointed. Novem- 

 ber to January but will keep through February. 



