THE APPLE. 



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Southwest, it having as it were the habit of reproducing itself from seed, 

 or at least so nearly identical as to be impossible to distinguish the seed- 

 ling from the parent, hence one cause of so many synonyms. The first 

 dissemination of it known was by a Colonel Summerour, of Lincoln 

 County, N". C., under the name of Winter Rose ; but as it was found on 

 Nickajack Creek, it soon took that name, and is now best known there- 

 by. The habit of the tree is upright spreading, forming a very large 

 head. On branches two, three, or four years old, there are woody knobs 

 or warts of various sizes, which, when cut from the branch, are found to 

 contain kernels entirely detached from the regular grain of the wood. 

 The great value of the variety consists in the hardihood and productive- 

 ness of the tree rather than the character of the fruit, which is not more 

 than good in quality. Young shoots bright clear dark reddish. 



Mckajack. 



Fruit large. Form roundish to roundish oblate, slightly conic, some- 

 times oblique. Color yellowish, striped, shaded, and splashed with two 

 shades of red, and with a grayish appearance, as if covered with a thin 

 bloom, many large areole dots. Stalk short. Cavity large, medium 

 depth. Calyx partially open. Basin medium, slightly corrugated. 

 Flesh yellowish, compact, moderately tender and juicy, negative subacid. 

 Good. Core small, closed. December to April. 



NIEMAN'S BED REINETTE. 

 Nieman's Eothe Reinette. Reinette Rouge de Nieman. 



Originated at Hanover, Germany. Tree a strong, vigorous grower. 



Fruit medium, roundish conical, yellow, mostly overspread and 

 splashed with red. Stalk short. Calyx open. Flesh white, tender, 

 juicy, vinous, subacid. November, February. (Yerg.) 



