420 DESCRIPTIONS OF APPLES. 



Basin shallow, wide, wavy ; Eye small, closed. 



Cavity acute, regular ; Stern long, inclined. 



Core medium, regular, closed; Seeds numerous, short, 

 plump, pale ; Flesh greenish-yellow, fine grained, juicy ; 

 flavor mild sub-acid, rich ; almost first quality ; keeping 

 until May or later. 



American Pippin. 



GRINDSTONE. 



This fruit is chiefly valued for keeping very late into the 

 summer. Coxe commends it for its cider, rating it as 

 nearly equal to the Grey-House ; he says that fourteen 

 bushels are required to make a barrel of cider. The ap- 

 ples hang well to the tree, and will bear a considerable 

 amount of freezing. They are so firm as to suffer little from 

 bruising, and are not disposed to rot when thus injured. A 

 fruitman once said of their ability to withstand rough 

 usage, that the apples might be whipped off the tree with 

 a hoop-pole, shoveled into a cart, dumped upon the ground, 

 and have some dirt thrown upon them, and that they 

 would keep until next July ; but, he added, they are then 

 as good as dried apples ; so lightly are they esteemed for 

 table use. 



The tree is thrifty, with a low, spreading head and de- 

 pending branches ; very productive ; notwithstanding the 

 fruit is dry and deficient in flavor, it is considered profit- 

 able, because so easily kept until May and June, when it 

 commands the highest price, because of the rarity of green 

 fruit at that season. 



Fruit medium, regular, very flat; Surface rough, some- 

 times vein-russeted, dull green, covered with mixed red, 

 and shaded with stripes of brick-dust color ; Dots numer- 

 ous, large, gray. 



Basin very shallow, wide, regular or plaited ; Eye quite 

 small, open. 



Cavity regular, brown, this color extending over the 

 base of the fruit ; Stem medium, often thick and knobby. 



Core wide, irregular, closed ; Seeds numerous, plump, 

 brown ; Flesh yellow, breaking, dry, very firm ; Flavor mild 

 sub-acid; Quality poor; Uses kitchen and market, which 

 last means that it may be sold to those who do not appre- 

 ciate the summer fruits of M:\y and June. 



