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SORTS. 



NORTHERN SPY. 



OSLIN. 



PEASGOOD NONSUCH. 

 PUMPKIN SWEET. 

 RED ASTRAKHAN. 



RHODE ISLAND 

 GREENING. 



HOME BEAUTY. 

 RIBSTON PIPPIN. 



ROXBURY RUSSET. 

 STURMER PIPPIN. 



STRIPED WINTER 

 PEARMAIN. 



SCARLET NONPAREIL. 



*STONE PIPPIN. 



DESCRIPTION. 



One of the best dessert apples. Fruit large, 

 oblate, roundish, conical. Skin thin, smooth, 

 greenish pale in shade, but in sun marked 

 with pale dots. Flesh white, fine-grained, 

 tender. Roots blight-proof. 



An excellent apple. Fruit below medium. Form 

 oblate. Colour, clear lemon yellow when quite 

 ripe, with few grayish green dots. Flesh 

 yellowish, firm and crisp. 



A good keeping apple. Fruit large and of good 

 flavour, recommended both as a dessert and 

 cooking apple. 



Large sweet apple. Roundish, furrowed near 

 the stalk. Colour pale green with whitish 

 streaks and dots. Flesh white and very sweet. 



Handsome dessert apple. Fruit fairly large, very 

 smooth. Skin deep crimson and occasionally 

 a little russet near the stalk Flesh, white, 

 crisp, rich acid flavour. 



A well known favourite apple. Fruit large, 

 roundish, a little flattened. Colour dark green, 

 becoming yellowish when ripe. Flesh yellow, 

 fine grained, tender, crisp, rich acid juicy 

 flavour. 



A late apple. Fruit large, roundish, approaching 

 conic, yellow, shaded with bright red and light 

 dots. Flesh yellowish, tender, juicy, sub-acid. 



A well known dessert apple. Fruit of medium 

 size, roundish, greenish yellow, mixed with 

 russet near the stalk, dull red on sunny side. 

 Flesh deep yellow, crisp and rich. 



A popular table apple. Fruit above medium size, 

 a little flattened. Colour, brownish yellow 

 with faint blush on one side. Flesh greenish 

 'white, juicy with sub-acid flavour. 



A dessert 'apple. Fruit below medium, oblate, 

 approaching conic. Yellow with a bronzed or 

 crimson cheek. Flesh compact, rich, sub-acid. 

 A good keeper. 



An old variety. Fruit large and roundish, in- 

 clining to oblate. Yellow, striped with red 

 and gray dots. Flesh yellow, juicy, crisp and 

 sub -acid. 



Dessert apple of medium size. Roundish, oblate, 

 conical. Whitish colour shaded with red. 

 flesh yellowish, white, firm and juicy ; sub-acid 

 flavour. 



Good all round apple. Fruit medium size, 

 conical. Colour pale green, becoming yellow. 

 Flesh very firm, almost sweet. 



