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from his orchard. It should have been mentioned, that it 

 holds its age remarkably well, veiy old trees producing as 

 largely, and as fair, sound fruit as when young. 



22. Yellow Belle Fleur, or Bellflower. — ^Tree 

 spreads and droops more than any tree of the orchard, the 

 Newark pippin, perhaps, excepted; wood very slender 

 and >ship-like, healthy, ripens early, not subject to frost- 

 blight, grafts well on the root, but is rather tender during 

 the first winter when so worked ; buds well, but from its 

 drooping, sprawling habits, is hard to form into a top. Bears 

 moderately young (not so young as the white) ; abun- 

 dantly. Flesh melting and tender and juicy ; flavor fine 

 and delicate rather than high; color deep yellow when 

 ripe ; ripens from December to March. One of the most 

 deservedly popular of winter apples and always salable in 

 all markets. 



23. White Belle Fleur. — ^This apple is cultivated in 

 Ohio under the names of SoUow-cored Pippin^ Ohio 

 favorite^ and, by the Cincinnati pomologists, of Detroit. 

 It is also the Cumberland Spice and Monstrous Bellflower 

 of Coxe. It was taken to the West by Brunson of Wayne 

 County, Indiana, and thence disseminated in every direc- 

 tion ; and it may be called the Bellflower of Indiana, 

 since it and not the yellow, predominates in all orchards. 

 The yellow, however, within five years, has been largely 

 distributed. Tree, medium sized, spreading ; wood stronger 

 than the yellow belle fleur, healthy, ripens its wood early, 

 but liable to after-growth in warm falls, and therefore sub- 

 ject to frost-blight. The tree, from its habit of growth, 

 more liable to split and break under a full crop than any 

 tree of the orchard. One of the youngest bearers in the 

 nursery ; fruitful to a fault. Grafted on the root it kills off 

 in winter ; buds well and forms a top without difiiculty. 

 Fruit above medium and sometimes very large ; color, 

 greenish white, and, in some seasons with a blush on the 

 sunny side; flesh breaking at first, but when fully ripe. 



