130 Descriptions of Select Vai'ieties of Apples. 



It is a good grower, makes a fine spreading head, comes 

 into bearing early, and produces abundant crops in alternate 

 years." 



Size, large, about three inches broad and two and a half 

 deep : Form, roundish oblate, flattened at the base, and 

 rather full at the crown : Skin, fair, smooth, greenish yellow, 

 distinctly striped and splashed with light red and vermilion, 

 russeted at the stem, and dotted with small pale gray specks: 

 Stem, short, about half an inch long, rather slender, and 

 deeply inserted in a broad open cavity : Eye, medium size, 



Fig. C. Burrs Winter Sweet. 



closed, and moderately sunk in a slightly ribbed, open basin ; 

 segments of the calyx short : Flesh, yellowish, fine, soft and 

 tender: Juice, tolerably abundant, exceedingly sweet and 

 rich, with a slight aromatic perfume : Core, small : Seeds, 

 medium size. Ripens from December to March. 



LIII. Murphy. Kenrick's Arn. Orchardist. 



The Murphy (fig. 7) originated in Salem, in the garden 

 of Mr. D. Murphy, several years ago. It was brought to 

 notice by Mr. Manning, who furnished Mr. Kenrick with the 

 account of it in his American Orchardist. Mr. Manning 

 also described it briefly in our Magazme, (Vol. VII, p. 41.) 



It has now become considerably disseminated, but not so 



