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THE APPLE. 



YATES. 



Originated in Fayette Co., Ga, Tree very upright grower, great 

 bearer and good keeper. 



Fruit small, oblate or oblate conic, whitish yellow, overspread, 

 shaded, splashed, and striped with shades of red, many light dots. Stalk 

 slender. Cavity large, slightly russeted. Calyx small, closed. Flesh 

 white, sometimes stained next the skin, tender, juicy, pleasant subacid. 

 Good. March to May. 



YELLOW BELLFLOWER. 



Bellefleur Yellow. 



Bishop's Pippin of Nova Scotia. 



Keinette Musque. 



Belle Fleur. 

 Lady Washington. 

 Warren Pippin. 



The Yellow Belle Fleur is a large, handsome, and excellent winter 

 Apple, everywhere highly esteemed in the United States. It is most 

 abundantly seen in the markets of Philadelphia, as it thrives well in the 

 sandy soils of New Jersey. Coxe first described this fruit ; the original 

 tree of which grew in Burlington, N. J. Tree a moderately vigo- 

 rous grower, forming a spreading, roundish, rather drooping head. 

 Young wood yellowish brown. A regular and excellent bearer. 



Yellow Bellllower. 



Fruit very large, oblong, a little irregular, tapering to the eye. Skin 

 smooth, pale lemon yellow, often with a blush next the sun. Stalk long 



