of Select Varieties of Apples. 



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highly esteemed, and the Eastern Markets are supplied from 

 this source ; those of fine quality always commanding a high 

 price and quick sale. Recently quite a number of trees of 

 this apple have been planted in the orchards of Massachu- 



Fig. 4. Esopus Spitzenberg. 



setts, and an opportunity will soon be afforded of satisfacto- 

 rily ascertaining whether it will succeed as well as in New 

 York. 



The Tree has a very erect, upright habit while young, 

 with rather slender, dark colored shoots ; but when full 

 grown the branches become somewhat pendulous. 



Size, large, about three inches broad and three deep: 

 Form, oblong, slightly ribbed at the base, and narrowing 

 little to the crown : Skin, fair, smooth, rich deep brilliant 

 red, approaching to scarlet, indistinctly streaked with crimson, 

 and regularly covered with large, prominent, somewhat ob- 

 long yellow specks : Stem, rather short, about half an inch 

 long, projecting scarcely beyond the fruit, moderately stout, 

 and deeply inserted in a rather contracted cavity : Eye, small, 



