604 DESCRIPTIONS OF APPLES. 



cious ; Quality best ; Use, table and kitchen ; Season, Au- 

 gust. Marked in my notes " One of the very best of the 

 new apples." 



This valuable market variety originated near Columbus, 

 Ohio, where it was brought into notice by M. B. Bateham, 

 the excellent Secretary of the Ohio Pomological Society, 

 and founder of the Columbus Nurseries. 



Tree vigorous, healthy, large, spreading and productive ; 

 believed to be entirely hardy. 



Fruit full medium to large, globular, inclining to oblong 

 in appearance, turbinated or flattened at the ends, regu- 



Fig. 234. LIBERTY. 



lar ; Surface not smooth, yellow, covered with dull red 

 and scarlet, mixed and splashed, stripes indistinct; Dots 

 minute, gray, prominent. 



Basin medium, quite shallow, regular, indistinctly leath- 

 er-cracked ; Eye small, closed. 



