WORTHY GENERAL CULTIVATION. 



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crisp, juicy, sweet superior to Ramsdell's or Danvers' Sweeting ; 

 core, medium, or rather small, compact centre slightly hollow;, 

 seeds, ovate, oblong, pyriform. Season, November to March. 



There is another Sweet Romanite grown in the Western States, 

 which is oblong ; stem, long and slender ; color, light yellow, striped 

 with red ; flesh, more yellow and dry an inferior or unworthy 

 variety. 



There is also a Sweet Nonsuch grown which is flat, with slender 

 stem ; cavity, deep light red on pale yellow ; flesh, white, sweet, dry, 

 and tough ; inferior. 



VANDERVERE. 



Vandervere, of Cincinnati, 

 Smokehouse ? 

 Gibbon's Smathhouse ? 

 Millcreek, 

 Vandervere Pippin 

 Red Vandervere. 

 Fall Vandervere, 

 5Tellow Vandervere, 

 Spiced Ox Eye, 



Baltimore, of some incorrectly, 

 Gibbon's Smokehouse ? 

 Striped Ashmore ? 

 Millcreek Vandervere, 

 Imperial Vandervere, 

 Pennsylvania Vandervere, 

 Striped Vandervere, 

 Staalclubs, 

 Watson's Vandervere. 



American. Native of Delaware. There is much confusion rela- 

 tive to this apple, and, while it is extensively distributed and grown, 

 it has numerous synonyms. The variety described as "Smoke- 

 house," by Dr. W. D. Brinckle, in Horticulturist, vol. 3, p. 334, we 

 received specimens of, last winter, from Pennsylvania, and could de- 

 tect no difference from the Vandervere when well grown. It may, 



