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THE APPLE. 



zenburgh, we continue that name. It had its origin in Newtown, Long 

 Island. Tree moderate, vigorous, spreading, and productive in rich, light 

 soil, of most excellent fruit, which is suited to more tastes than any other 

 Apple of its season. 



Newtown Spitzenburgh. 



Fruit medium, oblate, slightly conic, fine yellow, washed with light 

 red, striped and splashed with deeper red, and richly shaded with car- 

 mine on the sunny side, covered with a light bloom, and sprinkled with 

 peculiar gray specks. Stalk short, inserted in a wide cavity. Calyx 

 small, closed, set in a regular basin of moderate depth. Flesh yellow, 

 crisp, tender, with a rich, sprightly, vinous flavor, scarcely subacid. 

 Best. October to February. 



NICHOLS SWEET. 



Origin unknown. 



Fruit medium, roundish, slightly conic, yellow, shaded and faintly 

 splashed with red, few light dots. Flesh whitish, compact, moderately 

 juicy, sweet. Good cooking. Core small. December, January. 



Caroline. 



Berry. 



Summerour. 



Accidental. 



Red Pippin. 



Howard. 



Hubbard. 



Mobbs. 



Cheataw. 



Edward Shantee. 



Pound. 



Wall. 



NlCKAJACK. 



Aberdeen. 

 Trenham 

 Big Hill. 

 Carolina Spice. 

 Cheatan Pippin. 

 Chatham Pippin, 

 Winter Rose. 

 Red Hazel. 

 Wander. 



Alleghany. 



Chaltram Pippin. 



Gowden. 



Graham's Red Warrior. 



Walb. 



Winter Horse. 



Missouri Pippin. 



Missouri Red. 



Leanham. 



Red Warrior, erroneously. Winter Horse. 

 Forsythe's Seedling. Jackson Red. 



Ruckman's Red. World's Wonder. 



This Apple is very widely disseminated in sections of the South and 



