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DESCRIPTIONS OP APPLES. 



Basin medium, abrupt, regular or farrowed ; Eye medi- 

 um, closed. 



Cavity medium depth, narrow ; Stem medium to long, 

 slender. 



Core medium, somewhat open, clasping ; Seeds large, 

 plump, angular; Flesh yellow, breaking, juicy ; Flavor 

 sub-acid, aromatic, spicy ; Season November to February. 



I ii Hi <> Id Pippin. 



Specimens from my friend T. T. Lyon, of Michigan, 

 who says it is a seedling that originated in Pennsylvania, 



Fig. 198. DUFFIELD PIPPIN. 



at the beginning of the present century, with the ances- 

 tors of Geo. Diiffield, D.I)., for whom it was named, when 

 it received a first premium at the Michigan State Fair, 

 as a valuable winter variety. 



Fruit large, handsome, round, sometimes conic, regular ; 



