96 DESCRIPTIONS 



16:t. WHEELER'S KUSSET. 

 Fiuit ()( llie inediiim size, uiisyinmetrical, depressed. Color pale gray russel. Sunny side 

 ii lively lirown. Sicni sliort, depression narrow. Flesh greenish white, rather dry ; 

 aromatic and sacchiii ine. Tree hardy, bearing aluindance of the best of winter russets. 

 English. 



164. WINTER RUSSET. (Hort. Trans, vol. iii. p. 454.) 

 Fruit rather large; costal angles extending to the calyx. Color yellowish green, russetty, 

 and intermixed with white ; red on the sunny side ; stem short, flesh firm and high fla- 

 vored in its season. Irish. Early Avinter. 



165. JERSEY CRAB. Plate 39. 

 Is the name of a Greenhush cider apple. The tree is very vigorous, hardy and productive. 

 The apple is small, and covered with a hazy bloom. 



166. GOLDEN HARVEY. 



Fruit small, unsymmetrical, russet yellow, with a red cheek. Calyx open, rigid. Flesh 

 yellow, fine, suliacid. Tree of a slender growth. 



167. OLD NONPAREIL. 



Small, excentric, yellowish green, pale russet. Stem slender, calyx small. Flesh rich, 

 acid, sharp. Early winter. English. 



168. GOLDEN RUSSET OF NEW-YORK. 

 Fruit of the medium size, slightly elongated ; symmetrical ; nisseting thick sometimes, 

 then showing the greenish yellow skin. ' Stem slender. Flesh fine grained, firm, crisp, 

 aromatic. Keeps till spring. 



169. ROXBURY RUSSET. 

 Boston Russel. 



Fruit of the medium size, symmetrical, subcircular, ends subequal. Color dull green, be- 

 coming in ripening brownish yellow russet, enlivened with a faint blush on the sunny 

 side. Stem exsert, slender ; basin circular. Flesh greenish white, subacid, moderately 

 juicy, with a rich flavor. Keeps till June. 



The Putnam Russet of Ohio, has been proved after considerable research to be the iden- 

 tical Roxbury Russet, altered somewhat by climate and the rich soil of the western valleys. 



