144 THE APPLE. 



thickly sprinkled with small light dots. Stalk medium, slender. Cavity 

 large, deep, acute. Calyx small, closed. Segments small and short to a 

 point. Basin medium, rather deep, corrugated. Flesh white, sometimes 

 a little stained next the skin, very tender, juicy, mild, pleasant subacid. 

 Very good. Core large. December to March. 



DEMOCRAT. 



Warder describes an Apple under this name obtained of George 

 Powers, Perrysburgh, O., as follows : 



Fruit medium, roundish conic, yellow, blushed scarlet. Dots minute. 

 Flesh yellow, breaking, juicy, subacid, aromatic. Good to very good. 

 October, December. 



DERRY NONSUCH. 

 Dinsmore. Londonderry. 



Origin unknown, from Keene, 1ST. H., and held in estimation there. 

 Tree thrifty and productive, a late keeper. 



Fruit above medium, oblong or conic, yellow, sprinkled, shaded, and 

 splashed with crimson. Stalk short, in a moderate cavity. Calyx large, 

 closed. Basin shallow, uneven. Flesh yellowish, juicy, tender, slightly 

 aromatic, agreeably subacid. Good. January to April. 



DETROIT BLACK. 



Crimson Pippin. Grand Sachem. 



Black Detroit. Washington Pearmain. 



A showy, large, dark, blood-red fruit, but rather coarse, and scarcely 

 worth cultivation. 



Fruit very large, roundish, distinctly ribbed, and irregular in its out- 

 line. Skin smooth, deep, dingy red over the whole surface. Flesh 

 white, rather dry, and without much flavor. Good. September. 



DETROIT RED. 

 Detroit. Black Apple of some. Large Black. 



This fruit, commonly known in Western New York and Michigan 

 as the Detroit, is supposed to have been brought to the neighborhood 

 of Detroit by early French settlers, and thence disseminated. 



Fruit of medium or rather large size, roundish, somewhat conical, 

 bright crimson at first, but becoming dark blackish purple at maturity, 

 somewhat dotted and marbled with specks of fawn color on the sunny 

 side. Flesh white (sometimes stained with red to the core in exposed 

 specimens), crisp, juicy, of agreeable, sprightly subacid flavor. Good. 

 October to February. 



DEVONSHIRE BUCKLAND. 

 Dredge's White Lily. White Lily. Lily Buckland. 



An English culinary Apple. 



Fruit above medium, roundish oblate, waxen yellow. Flesh yel- 

 low, crisp, juicy, brisk, sweet. October to February. (Hogg.) 



DEVONSHIRE GOLDEN BALL. 



An English Apple, described by Ronalds as follows : 

 Fruit large, globular, straw-colored, with flesh of unstriped carmine. 



