MOST GENERALLY ESTEEMED. 



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rather small, woolly; basin, medium depth, slightly furrowed ; flesh, yel- 

 lowish, fine-grained, tender, slightly aromatic, lively acid juice; core, 

 small ; seeds, ovate pointed. December to February. The best cooking 

 apple as yet known. 



RIBSTON PIPPIN. 



Glory of York, | Travers, | Formosa Pippin. 



Foreign. Valued in Northern sections ; not esteemed South or Central. 

 Fruit, medium, roundish, greenish yellow, russet near the stem, dull red in 

 nun; stem, slender ; calyx, small closed; basin, open: corf, small; seeds, 

 flattened ovate ; flesh, yellow, firm, crisp, aromatic, sub-acid. November 

 to February. 



RICHMOND. 



We received this fine variety from D. C. Richmond, Esq., near 3an- 

 iusky, as a native seedling, and are unable to identify it with any known 

 sort. 



Fruit, large ; form roundish ; occasional specimens have one side a little 

 enlarged ; color, light yellow ground, mostly or quite overspread with light 

 and dark red stripes, many dots or specks of light russet ; stem, varying, 

 mostly short, slender; cavity, deep, open, regular, a little brownish at 

 bottom; calyx, large, segments long; basin, deep, open, uniformly fur- 

 rowed ; flesh, white, tender, juicy, delicate sweet ; core, medium ; seeds, 

 large, full. October to December. 



ROMAN STEM. 



French Pippin, of eom*. 



From New Jersey. Shoots, slender, diverging ; succee Is finely on the 

 iry prairi^ and on all rich limestone soik ; productive. Fruit, rued mm, 



