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DESCRIPTIONS OF APPLES. 



Prolific Beauty. 



This showy fruit is one of the original Putnam list of 

 Washington County, Ohio ; it is somewhat singular that 

 so few choice sorts are traceable to the seeds of these first 

 good orchards of the 'West. Rome Beauty is almost the 

 only one of great notoriety that is referable to this source.' 



Fruit large, sometimes quite large, oblate, somewhat 

 conic, regular ; Surface smooth, yellowish-green, partially 

 covered with stripes of red ; Dots minute, gray. 



Basin medium, wide, regular ; Eye small, closed. 



Cavity wide, wavy, green ; Stem medium. 



Fig. 107. PROLIFIC BEAUTY. 



Core large, regular, open, clasping ; Seeds numerous, 

 plump ; Flesh whitish-yellow, tender, juicy ; Flavor acid ; 

 quality scarcely good ; Use kitchen, market ; Season Sep- 

 tember to December. 



ROMANITE OF NEW JERSEY BREAD-AND-CHEESE, ETC. 



This standard Eastern Pennsylvania variety is univer- 

 sally popular, and through the Western States it marks 



