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Briggs' Auburk. Fruit large, flat ; light yellow, slight blush in 

 the sun ; flesh white, fine texture, flavor a blending of the saccha- 

 rine with the sub-acid. Season, last of September and first of 

 October. Origin, Auburn, Maine. Good for family use and for 

 market. Is not very extensively grown. 



Gloria Mundi. Fruit large, flart ; bright yellow, blush in the 

 sun ; flesh yellow, fine texture, crisp, very juicy, flavor much like 

 the Briggs' Auburn, save that it is more sprightly. Season, last 

 of September and first of October. Good grower and great bearer. 

 One of the best for family and dessert use, and popular in Lewis- 

 ton market, where it is best known. Extensively grown in Andros- 

 coggin county, where it gives universal satisfaction. Fruit even 

 and remarkably free from defects. Every way desirable. This is 

 not the Gloria Mundi of the books. 



Duchess of Oldenburg. The following description of this fruit 

 and its habits is copied from Mr. Goodale, in Report of 1863: 



" A Russian fruit of good size, fair quality, great beauty, ex- 

 tremely hardy and immensely productive. Fruit rather large,, 

 roundish. Skin pale yellow, finely streaked, and washed with 

 bright red, with a faint bloom over it. Flesh crisp, tender, juicy, 

 with a brisk acid flavor, of tolerable quality for the dessert and 

 excellent for all other uses. September. 



"In southern Maine, the Duchess is apt to fall off" before ripening, 

 but in this, and in other respects, also, it improves as we go north. 

 It is better in Kennebec county than in York, and better in Aroos- 

 took than in Kennebec. Its value in the extreme north may be 

 judged of by the experience of Mr. Sharp, of Woodstock, New 

 Brunswick, twelve miles from Houlton, Maine, who informed me 

 that out of four hundred varieties of grafted apples proved by him 

 rather less than a dozen succeeded, and of these the Duchess stood 

 decidedly at the head of the list. In that vicinity it is known 

 under the name of " The New Brunswicker." The only fault I 

 heard ascribed to it there, was by one who objected to the neces- 

 sity of building a scaffold "about his trees every year — an objection 

 not ill grounded, for unlike other apples, an excessive crop does not 

 prevent this sort from bearing heavily the next year. Such exces- 

 sive production, however, tells upon the growth of the tree. Where 

 all the strength is given to fruit bearing, we cannot expect much 

 growth of wood, and I do not recollect ever to have seen in Maine 

 or New Brunswick a tree of this variety of large size, unless 



