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yellow, with green and red dots. Stem short, cavity deep. 

 Calyx closed in a medium basin. Flesh yellowish, fine-grained, 

 juicy, sweet. November to February. 



DiSHAROON. 



Origin, Habersham county, Georgia, growth upright and 

 vigorous. 



Fruit medium roundish, oval or oblate, compressed or angular. 

 Skin greenish white, covered with grey dots. Stem short, in- 

 serted in a large cavity. Calyx partially closed, set in a rather 

 deep, round, open basin. Flesh white, juicy, tender, with a 

 pleasant sub-acid flavour. November to December. 



DOMIXE. 



Wells — Striped R. I. Greening. 

 Hogan— English Red Streak. 

 English Beauty of Pa. 



This apple, extensively planted in the orchards on the Hud- 

 son, so much resembles the Eambo externally, that the two are 

 often confounded together, and the outline of the latter fruit (see 

 Rambo,) may be taken as nearly a fac-simile of this. The Domine 

 is, however, of a livelier colour, and the flavour and season of 

 the two fruits are very distinct, — the Rambo being rather a high 

 flavoured early winter or autumn apple, while the Domine is a 

 sprightly, juicy, long keeping, winter fruit. 



Fruit of medium size, flat. Skin lively greenish-yellow in 

 the shade, with stripes and splashes of bright red in the sun, 

 and pretty large russet specks. Stalk long and slender, planted . 

 in a wide cavity and inclining to one side. Calyx small, in a 

 broad basin, moderately sunk. Flesh white, exceedingly tender 

 and juicy, with a sprightly pleasant, though not high flavour. 

 Young wood of a smooth, lively, light brown, and the trees are 

 the most rapid growers and prodigious bearers that we know — 

 the branches being literally weighed down by the rope-hke 

 clusters of fruit. 



The Domine does not appear to be described by any foreign 

 author. Coxe says that he received it from England, but the 

 apple he describes and figures does not appear to be ours, and 

 we have never met with it in any collection here. It is highly 

 probable that this is a native fruit. It is excellent from De- 

 cember till April. 



DowNTON Pippin. Thomp. Lind. 



Kn^S^S^GoMen Pippin, [ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^«^^^- 

 Downton Golden Pippin. Ken. 



A rather early variety of the English Golden Pippin, raised 

 by Mr. Knight of Downton Castle. 



