THE APPLE. 93 



BELVOIR PIPPIN. 



Of English origin. Fruit small, roundish oblate, yellow with 

 crimson in sun, russet at the stalk. Flesh pale yellow, firm, crisp, 

 rich brisk acid. November, December. (Lind.) 



BELZER. 



Fruit medium, roundish, yellow striped with red. Flesh white, 

 fine, sub-acid. Good. Middle August. (Hov. Mag.) 



BEN DAVIS. 



New York Pippin. Baltimore Eed. 

 Victoria Pippin. do. Pippin. 



Victoria Red. do. Red Streak. 



Red Pippin. Carolina Red Streak. 



Kentucky Pippin. Funkhouser. 



The origin of this apple is unknown. J. S. Downer of Kentucky 

 writes that old trees are there found from which suckers are taken in 

 way of propagating. The tree is very hardy, a free grower, with very 



Ben. Davis. 



dark reddish brown, slightly grayish young wood, forming an erect 

 round head, bearing early and abundantly. In quality it is not first- 

 rate, but from its early productiveness, habit of blooming late in Spring 

 after late frosts, good size, fair even fruit, keeping and carrying well, it 

 is very popular in all the Southwest and West. 



Fruit medium to large. Form roundish, truncated conical, often 

 sides unequal. Color yellowish, almost entirely overspread, splashed, 

 and striped with two shades of red, and dotted sparsely with areole 

 dots. Stalk medium, rather slender. Cavity narrow, deep, russeted. 



