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DKSOKIITIONS OK AIM'LKS. 



brought to the West by different routes by the Ohio 

 River and by the lakes and hns been universally dist ril)- 

 uted. Those brought to the mouth of the Muskingum 

 River, an<l propagated by Mr. Putnam, had the name 

 changed to that ot the Marietta and the Putnam Russet; 

 :in<l at, the sa.me lim<' the :ippear:inre of the fruit, was so 

 altered by increase in the russeting, that it was long 

 thought to be a different variety, until the question was 

 at length settled by interchange of grafts ; and when 

 these fruited the identity was proved. 



It is claimed that more money has been realized from 

 thin than from any other variety, though, on the Ohio 



Fig. 185. ROXBURY RUSSET. 



River, the Rome Beauty is considered to be equally prof- 

 itable. The popularity of this Russet is on the wane, 

 however, as it is very subject to attacks of the Codling- 

 moth, which makes it fall, and because it is apt to ripen 

 too early in the season in southern locations and on lime- 

 stone soils. Hence its value as a keeping apple is diminished. 

 Tree robust, vigorous, spreading; Shoots stout, strag- 

 gling, dark; Foliage gray-green. 



large, oblate, often lop-sided at the West, fre- 



