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THE APPLE. 



ity about with Red Astrachan, but maturing some ten days or two 

 weeks earlier; very valuable for cooking or marketing; a gross 

 feeder, requiring good soil ; needs little pruning. Our figure does 

 not well represent it, being far too small for an average. 



Fruit, medium ; form, roundish, slightly conical ; color, light yel- 

 low ground, striped and splashed with red, and a beautiful white 

 bloom ; stem, short, stout ; cavity, deep, farrowed ; calyx, rather 

 large, long segments ; basin, abrupt, deep, irregular, furrowed ; flesh, 

 white, tender, sprightly, juicy, slightly acid, or sharp sub acid, with 

 a peculiar aromatic taste ; core, small, fleshy ; seeds, plump, light 

 brown. Season, last of July. 



SWEET ROMANITE. 



Sweet Nonsuch, | Orange Sweet, erroneously, 



This is a variety introduced to the Ohio Pomological Society by 

 W. B. Lipsey, of Morrow County, Ohio. We have not been able 

 to identify it with any variety heretofore described. The flesh being 

 fine grained and firm somewhat like the Gilpin or Romanite prob- 

 ably induced the name. It is grown in Illinois, under name of 

 " Sweet Nonsuch," and introduced there under the erroneous name 

 of " Orange Sweet." Tree, hardy, moderate but regular bearer. 



Size, medium ; form, roundish flattened, very regular ; color, 

 greenish yellow ground, mostly striped and overspread with bright 

 red and covered with a fine bloom ; stem, short ; cavity, open, regu- 

 lar, with little russet ; calyx, large, segments in divisions, short, half 

 erect ; basin, broad, shallow, furrowed ; flesh, greenish yellow, firm, 



