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SORTS. 



GLORIA MUNDI. 

 HAWTHORNDEN. 



HUBBARDSTON NoN- 

 SUCH. 



JONATHAN. 



KESWICK CODLIN. 



KING OF TOMPKINS 

 COUNTY. 



KING OF THE PIPPINS. 

 LATE BI/OOMER. 



KLAPROTH. 

 LORD SUFFIELD. 

 MONMOUTH PIPPIN. 

 MERE DE MENAGE. 



DESCRIPTION. 



One of the largest apples. Showy for dessert r 

 rather than for use or profit. 



An excellent market apple, cooking. Fruit above 

 medium, regularly formed, roundish and rather 

 flattened. Skin smooth, pale yellow and nearly 

 white in shade, but blush when exposed to sun. 

 Flesh white and of pleasant flavour. 



Fine large apple. Fruit roundish, oblong, 

 narrower near the eye. Skin smooth, striped 

 with splashes of pale and bright red. Flesh 

 yellow, juicy, acidulous. 



Beautiful dessert apple of good flavour. Medium 

 size, regularly formed, roundish conical, skin 

 thin and smooth, light yellow with red stripes, 

 deepening into dark red in sun. Flesh white. 



A noted cooking apple. Fruit above medium, 

 rather conical, with a few obscure ribs. Skin 

 greenish yellow, with faint blush on one side. 

 Flesh white, juicy and pleasantly acid. 



A valuable market fruit. Large size, globular, 

 inclining to conic. Colour yellowish, mostly 

 shaded with red, striped and splashed with 

 crimson Flesh yellowish with rich vinous- 

 flavour. 



A medium sized apple, roundish, oblate, pale 

 yellow, mixed and striped with red. Flesh 

 firm, sharp, sub-acid. 



A valuable late apple, probably a Cape seedling,, 

 hardy and prolific, resembles Astrakhan, but 

 of far finer flavour. Medium size, deep crimson. 

 Flesh crisp and juicy. A good keeper and 

 eminently fit for export. 



An excellent market apple, medium size. Form 

 oblate. Skin _ greenish yellow, streaked and 

 stained with red. Flesh white, and very crisp > 

 pleasant sub -acid flavour. 



Valuable cooking apple, recommended for ship- 

 ping. Fruit above medium size. Greenish 

 yellow with tinge of red in sun. Flesh white, 

 tender, firm, sub-acid. 



Fruit large, oblate or slightly flattened at base 

 and crown. Colour pale yellow with a beauti- 

 ful warm cheek and russet dots. Flesh juicy, 

 fine, brisk, aromatic, sub-acid. 



Fruit very large, conical, yellow, shaded and 

 striped with red. Flesh firm, crisp, juicy and 

 sub-acid. This is a good showy market apple. 



