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RED QuARRENDEN. 

 Devonshire Quarrenden, | Sack Apple, 



Foreign. Fruit, medium, roundish, flattened ; clear deep red, with 

 specks of russet green ; stem, short ; cavity, deep, russeted at base ; 

 calyx, large, half closed ; basin, shallow, slightly ribbed ; flesh, white, ten- 

 der, sub-acid ; "very good." Aug. 



RED SWEET. 



Grown by D. C. Richmond, Sandusky, 0. Tree, good bearer ; fruit uni- 

 formly fair, regular, heavy specific weight, valuable for dessert or cooking. 

 Fruit, medium, round, flattened ; yellow, overspread and striped with lively 

 red ; stem, short ; basin, deep ; calyx, with stiff closed segments ; core 

 and seeds, small j flesh, yellowish white, crisp, juicy, tender, sweet. Nov. 

 to Feb. 



REPUBLICAN PIPPIN. 



From Lycoming Co., Pa. Considerably distributed South and West. 

 A poor bearer, on deep, rich limestone soils. Tree, strong grower, spread- 

 ing habit. Fruit, large, roundish flattened ; greenish yellow, mottled and 

 striped with red, few large gray dots ; stem, slender ; cavity, narrow ; 

 calyx, small, nearly closed ; core, small ; seeds, brown ; flesh, yellowish 

 white, tender, sub-acid. Sept. to Oct. 



RIBSTON PIPPIN. 



Glory of York, I Travers, 

 Formosa Pippin. 



Foreign. Valued in Northern sections, not esteemed South or Central. 

 Fruit, medium, roundish ; greenish yellow, russet near the stem, dull red in 

 sun ; stem, slender ; calyx, small, closed ; basin, open ; core, small ; seeds, 

 flattened ovate ; flesh, yellow, firm, crisp, aromatic, sub-acid. Nov. to 

 Feb. 



ROMAN STEM. 



French Pippin, of some. 



From New Jersey. Shoots slender, diverging ; succeeds finely on the 

 dry prairies, and on all rich limestone soils ; productive. Fruit, medium, 

 roundish oblong ; whitish yellow, with brownish or red russet, and patch- 

 es of blackish russet, unless well grown ; stem, with a fleshy knob one 

 side ; cavity, russeted ; calyx, small, closed ; basin narrow ; core, open, 

 long ovate ; seeds, ovate pointed ; flesh, tender, juicy, sub-acid, sprightly ; 

 " very good." Nov. to Feb. 



Ross NONPAREIL. 



Foreign. Tree, productive. Fruit, below medium, roundish ; dull red, 

 blotched and striped, over which is a marbling of thin mellow russet ; 

 stem, slender ; calyx, medium ; flesh, greenish white, juicy, sub-acid, aro- 

 matic; "very good," nearly "best." Oct. to Nov. 



