450 DESCRIPTIONS OF APPLES. 



plied in New York and westward on that parallel. Coxe 

 describes the fruit in question under the nnme Vandervere. 



Tree vigorous, healthy, large, spreading, very twiggy 

 and drooping, with abundant fruit on the ends of the spray ; 

 Foliage bright yellowish-green, shining, pointed, the whole 

 aspect of the tree peculiar and characteristic in summer 

 or winter. 



Fruit medium or less, oblate, or globular-oblate, regu- 

 lar; Surface smooth, but having raised hemispherical warts 

 of a yellow russet color, yellow, mottled, and striped light 

 red, often a gray appearance over the whole exterior; Dots 

 : arge, yellow, indented. 



Basin wide, regular, not deep ; Eye small, closed. 



Cavity wide, regular; Stem long, slender. 



Core regular, closed, meeting and clasping the eye; 

 seeds numerous, pointed, plump ; Flesh yellow, breaking, 

 granular, j uicy ; Flavor highly aromatic, acid ; Quality for 

 table third, for kitchen first, for cider Coxe says very good, 

 yielding a heavy must ; Season December and January. 



The fruit is subject to bitter rot, and does not keep 

 well, but -may be used for cooking as soon as any other 

 apple, making good sauce in July, when not half grown. 



BIG BED. 



This large market fruit is found chiefly in regions set- 

 tled by immigrants from the South, and it may prove to 

 be the same as some other southern apple. Specimens 

 first received from my friend J. B. Orange, in Southern 

 Illinois, afterwards from several other points. 



Tree vigorous, large, branches upright, shoots purple, 

 warty, buds long, pointed. 



Fruit large, regular, oblate ; Surface not smooth, dull 

 red, shaded and striped, covering the yellow ground ; Dots 

 small, prominent, with some roughness. 



Basin regular, wide, not deep ; Eye small, closed. 



Cavity wide, regular, green and brown ; Stem medium 

 to short. 



Core closed, or nearly so, meeting and partially clasping 

 the eye ; Axis short ; Seeds numero\js, plump, angular ; 

 Flesh yellow, breaking, granular, juicy ; Flavor sub-acid, 



