86 WINTER APPLES. 



blush near the base, when much exposed to the sun ; 

 stalk rather slender, three-fourths of an inch long, cavity 

 round, moderate, or often small ; basin small, even ; flesh 

 yellowish, fine grained, compact, tender, with a very rich, 

 mild, aromatic, agreeable, slightly sub-acid flavor. Es- 

 teemed by many as the finest winter table apple. Ripens 

 through winter and keeps into spring. Shoots ascending, 

 buds large, leaves coarsely rounded serrate. Fruit apt to 

 be scabby on old overloaded trees. Not successful in all 

 localities. Fig. 124. 



Sweet and Sour. A middle sized fruit, with greenish ribs 

 and whitish hollows ; the former sub-acid, and the latter 

 with an insipid or sweet flavor, occasioned by a partially 

 diseased action, not unlike that of the whitish streaks in 

 the leaves of striyed or ribbon grass. The wildly absurd 

 story of raising this fruit by placing two halves of dissimi- 

 lar buds together, is wholly fabulous. 



Tewkshury Blush. (S?/?z. Tewksbury Winter Blush.) Small, 

 round-oblate ; 3'ellow with a red cheek ; flesh yellow, 

 juicy, with a good flavor. Keeps till mid-summer. Very 

 productive. New-Jersey. 



Victorious Reinette. {Syn. Reinette Triomphante.) Large 

 roundish-oblong, tapering very slightiy each way front 

 the middle ; regular, often a little oblique ; pale yellow 

 with rough specks; stalk half an inch long, cavity very deep; 

 flesh yellowish, rather firm, of second-rate sub-acid flavor. 



White Seeknofurtiier. Size medium ; roundish oblate, 

 slightly obtuse-conical, very pale green becoming yellow- 

 ish, with whitish specks faintly ribbed ; stalk very short, 

 thick, cavity small; basin moderate or rather deep, slight- 

 ly ribbed or uneven ; flesh very fine grained, juicy, mild 

 sub-acid, very agreeable, fine flavor. Cultivated in New- 

 England, Fruit often defective. This is distinguished 

 from the green Seeknofurther of Coxe by its smaller size, 

 and far more delicate texture. Fig. 150. 



White Winter Calville. Large, rather flat, broadly ribbed, 

 irregular ; color, pale greenish yellow, becoming yellow 

 stalk three-fourths of an inch long, slender, deep set 



