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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



•The Leeits is a fine looking, yellow apple, that would suit many people's 

 taste as a dessert apple ; it comes under the head of sweet apples, and yet 

 is less saccharine than most of that class. It may be described thus : 



Fruit, large, oblate. Skin, fine yellow, waxen, considerably dotted. 

 Stalk, short, inserted in a deep cavity. Calyx, closed, inserted in a large, 

 moderately deep basin. Flesh, white, firm, fine-grained, juicy, sweet, of 

 excellent quality. Season, probably January and February. 



Fig. i8. — The McLean. 



The Gibson is rather a fine dessert apple, of the Fameuse type of 

 apples, and is well represented in our engraving, which was made from one 

 of the samples sent by Mr. Nichol. Size, medium ; form, oblate, conical, 

 somewhat shouldered; skin, greenish, well-covered and striped with dark 

 crimson ; flesh, white, tender, juicy, sub-acid, of good quality. Season, 

 probably January, judging from' the sample before us. 



The McLean, of which we also give an engraving, is in appearance 

 a strikingly beautiful apple. Fruit, round, medium size ; skin, with delicate 

 yellow ground, with waxen lustre, covered with beautiful pale rose color on 

 the basal half; stem, slender, about one inch long, in an even, russeted 

 cavity ; calyx, small, in a moderate-sized basin, slightly corrugated ; flesh, 

 fine-grained, tender, moderately juicy, very good, but having a tendency 

 to rot at the core. 



