DECEMBER. 



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tree, the fruit remarkably fair, and keeping for a long time. 

 It also possesses the good quality of carrying well for a long 

 distance, which is very important when apples are sent 

 many miles to market. 



Size, very large, about four inches broad and three and a 

 half deep : Form, roundish oblate, regular, depressed at the 

 base, and narrowing but little to the eye : Skin, fair, smooth, 

 greenish yellow, broadly shaded with pale blush, deepest on 

 the sunny side, and dotted with a few large whitish specks 

 and streaked with greenish russet around the stem : Ste?n, 



THE FALLAWATER. 



short, about half an inch long, rather slender, and moderately 

 inserted in a small, contracted cavity : Eye, large, closed, and 

 little sunk in a small, rather shallow basin ; segments of the 

 calyx narrow : Flesh, greenish white, coarse, crisp and ten- 

 der : Juice, tolerably abundant, slightly acid, pleasant and 

 good : Core, large, closed : Seeds, small, plump, light brown. 

 Ripe from December to April. 



