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extensively, we think, as its merits deserve. It is not only a 

 very handsome apple, but is a rich and fine fruit, well de- 

 serving a place in every orchard. It has a fine Pearmain 

 flavor, similar to the old Blue Pearmain, which it resembles 

 more than any other variety. 



Size, large, about three inches broad, and two and three- 

 quarters deep : Form, roundish oblong, narrowing most 

 towards the crown, which is rather small: Skin, fair, smooth, 

 with a deep yellow ground, nearly covered with light red, 

 and distinctly splashed with dark purplish crimson, dotted 

 with yellowish specks : Stem, short, about half an inch long, 

 stout, and rather deeply set in a small, moderately deep cav- 



Fig. 7. Mui-pliy. 



ity : Eye, small, closed, and moderately depressed in a some- 

 what furrowed and rather small basin ; segments of the calyx 

 broad, twisted: Flesh, yellowish white, fine, crisp and ten- 

 der: Juice, plentiful, pleasantly subacid, sprightly and high 

 flavored: Core, large, open: Seeds, medium size, somewhat 

 angular. Ripe from November to February. ' 



LIV. Republican Pippin. 



The first notice we find of this apple (Jig. 8) is the record 

 of the name in the list of varieties proved by Manning up to 



