CLASS IV. OBLONG APPLES. 1. II. I. 673 



Ortley. 



WHITE BELLFLOWER, And Many Others.- 



This excellent New Jersey apple has been cultivated 

 very satisfactorily over a great extent of our country, and 

 is still seen in some Western collections, exhibiting all its 

 peculiar beauty, but in many places where it was a great 

 favorite but a few years since, it has become so defective 

 from scab and bitter-rot that it is rapidly disappearing 

 from the nurseries and orchards. 



Tree vigorous, healthy, upright, becoming large and 

 spreading, very productive ; Shoots stout, dark, bearing 

 limbs brittle, and often broken by the fruit. 



Fruit large, oblong, conic, truncated, regular ; Surface 

 smooth, pale yellow, rarely blushed light carmine, and 

 red spots ; Dots minute, indented, white bases seen only 

 in the unripe fruit. 



Basin medium, regular, plaited ; Eye small, very long, 

 closed. 



Cavity deep, acute, regular, brown ; Stem long, slender. 



Core medium, oval, regular, open, meeting the very long 

 eye; Seeds numerous, short, plump, pointed, dark, easily 

 loosened, when they rattle in the large open capsules j Flesh 

 yellowish, tender, breaking, juicy; Flavor acid to sub- 

 acid, sprightly, refreshing; Quality best; Use, table, 

 kitchen ; Season, November to January. 



The threatened failure of this fine fruit is much to be 

 regretted. Its tissue is so fine as to suit even the invalid 

 or convalescent, who could not safely partake of a more 

 solid apple. 



Iorter. 



Native of Sherburne, Massachusetts. Tree vigorous, 

 healthy, productive. 



Fruit rather large, oblong, somewhat conic, often trun- 

 cated; Surface smooth, yellow, often faintly blushed; 

 Dots few, sunken. 



Basin abrupt, folded ; Eye large, closed. 



Cavity acute, wavy, brown ; Stem medium. 



Cure medium, oval, regular, closed, meeting the eye ; 

 Seeds numerous, plump; Flesh yellowish white, breaking, 

 tender, juicy ; Flavor acid to sub-acid ; Quality good to 

 very good ; Use, kitchen, table, market ; Season, August 

 to October. 

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