THE 



Canadian Horticulturist 



Vol XV. 



1892, 



No. -i. 



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THE MAn:)EXS BITSH APPLE. 



yV the long list of apples ripening in the autumn, there 

 ^^^ '^! probably, not one which is so deserving of admira- 

 tion, on the score of beauty, as the old and well-known 

 Maiden's Blush, a very good representation of which we 

 show our readers in this number. It would, indeed, be a 

 fair maiden whose blush could equal it in coloring, and to say 

 of any apple that it almost equals the Maiden's Blush for 

 lieauty is saying almost all that could be said for it under 

 that head. This apple is a native of Xew Jersey, and was 

 first described by Coxe. The season is mid-autumn, ripen- 

 Z^^.i£^- ' i"g from the 20th of August to the end of October. For 



table, cooking and market, it is valuable ; although deficient in richness of flavor, 

 a point in which the famous Gravenstein far surpasses it. The showy appear, 

 ance, however, always gains for it the highest price in the British market. The 

 writer has shipped it to Covent Garden, London, about the first of September 

 and it has brought as high as $6.00 per barrel, for extra choice stock. 



In our experience with it, however, it has not proved to be a heavy bearer, 

 nor is the tree a very large grower. Our committee on apples, in preparing the 

 catalogue of fruits for the guidance of judges at fairs, has only given it a total of 

 twenty-five points, out of a possible forty, as an autumn apple. Its rating is as 

 follows : Dessert, 3, cooking, 7, home market, 7, foreign market, 8, out of a 

 possible 10 under each head. Possibly, it might bear a point or two more for 

 dessert, on the score of beauty. 



