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DESCRIPTIONS OF APPLES. 



Wharton, who may have brought it with him from the 

 East. For a time some of onr leading pomologists 

 thought it was the Canada Reinette, but this idea has 

 long since been relinquished, and all agree that it is $ui 

 generis, though it may have had a different name. In 

 some of its external characters it more nearly resembles 



Fig. 257. WHITE PIPPIN. 



the Yellow JVewtown Pippin than any other fruit ; but, 

 while it lacks the high, spicy flavor of that apple, it is 

 fojind to be much more profitable in the orchard. 



The tree is remarkably thrifty, vigorous and produc- 

 tive, upright, with very dark shoots, covered with down, 

 bearing large leaves that are quite downy beneath, and 

 deep green above. 



Fruit large, variable in form, angular, sometimes lop- 

 sided, generally fair, free from scab ; Surface smooth, green 

 or greenish- white to very pale yellow when ripe; the 

 skin toward the base is often marked on the unripe apple 

 with indistinct wavy stripes of white, the interspaces are 

 sometimes colored by exposure, and assume a pink or pur- 



