CLASS HI. ROUND APPLES. 1. II. II. 



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Beit 



NEW YORK. PIPPIN, AC. 



This handsome Southern apple has attained a wonderful 

 notoriety within a few years, and its culture has been 

 greatly extended, not on account of its superlative excel- 

 lence, but because of its many good qualities as an orchard 

 tree or market fruit. It was long cultivated by Verry 



Fig. 209. BEN DAVIS. 



Aldrich, in Bureau County, Illinois, and exhibited as 

 New York Pippin, which name gave an idea of its eastern 

 origin, but in other localities its relations point clearly to 

 its source in the South. To Mr. J. S. Downer we are in- 

 debted for a knowledge of its present name, and for con- 

 firmation of its identity under its several synonyms. 

 This apple may be said to have succeeded as well in the 

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