CLASS I. FLAT APPLES. 1. I. II. 



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ent ; it has as good qualities for making a rich cider ; 

 specimens obtained from W. C. Hampton. 



Fruit small, oblate, regular; Surface dull red, striped 

 purple ; Dots numerous, yellow. 



Basin wide, regular ; Eye large, open. 



Cavity wide, regular, brown ; Stem long, inclined. 



Core medium, round, regular, closed, meeting the eye ; 

 Seeds numerous, angular, plump; Flesh yellowish-white, 

 firm, tough; Flavor sweet; Use, cider; Season, winter. 



Jersey Sweet. 



AMERICAN. 



In some parts of the country this is a favorite baking 

 apple, but its great productiveness renders it small, and 

 makes it rather a stock apple. Tree vigorous, round- 

 headed ; Shoots short-jointed and red ; Foliage abundant. 



Fig. 63. JERSEY SWEET. 



Fruit medium, regular, globular-oblate, sometimes rath- 

 er conical, (according to Elliott & Downing, roundish- 

 ovate, but the drawing given by the latter is globular); 



