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DESCRIPTIONS OF APPLES. 



Stanard. 



From Erie County, New York, this fruit has made its 

 way westward, by the Lakes, having been distributed by 

 Col. Hodge, of Buffalo, and brought to the notice of his 

 western friends by Hon. M. L. Dunlap, of Champaign, 

 Illinois, who esteems it very highly. I quote from his ac- 

 count of it . 



" This proves one of our most profitable winter apples ; 

 the tree bears young and constantly, but fuller on alter- 



Flg. 175. STANARD. 



nate years; fruit large and showy, shoots large and 

 downy ; buds prominent, fruit buds large, and the earliest 

 in the orchard to swell ; but they do not open as soon as 

 others. Tree spreading, trunk generally crooked." Very 

 hardy. 



Fruit large, roundish, conical, ribbed, angular ; Surface 

 smooth, yellowish-green, somewhat red, mixed and striped 

 indistinctly ; Dots numerous, minute, white. 



