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DESCRIPTIONS OF APPT/ES. 



Fig. 227. MONK'S FAVORITE. 



Not having had an opportunity of examining this fruit, 

 I quote the ad interim report of the Pennsylvania Horti- 

 cultural Society : 



" Origin Berks County, Pennsylvania. 



" Fruit large, roundish, exterior of an exceedingly beau- 

 tiful waxen orange-yellow color, with a few russet dots, 

 and a delicately striped and richly mottled carmine cheek ; 

 Stem very short and rather stout, cavity narrow, acumi- 

 nate, shallow ; Calyx large, basin deep, rather wide, fur- 

 rowed; Flesh yellowish, somewhat tough, owing to the 

 fact of its being shriveled ; Flavor approaches to that of a 

 pineapple ; Quality very good ; December to April." 



Newark King;. 



An old apple, supposed to have come from New Jersey; 

 found in the oldest orchards of grafted fruits in South- 

 western Ohio, seldom elsewhere in the West that I have 

 seen. 



