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DUNN'S SEEDLING, W. (syn. Munroe's Favourite). One of 

 the best all-purposes apples. Tree hardy and prolific. Excellent 

 keeping apple ; one of the best for cooking. 



NORTHERN SPY (New York), W. Tree a rapid, upright 

 grower, requires good soil, blooms late, productive, but not an early 

 bearer. Young shoots, dark reddish brown ; fruit large, yellowish 

 green, with yellow-red cheek in the sun, and thin white bloom. 

 Flesh white, tender, fragrant, juicy, crisp, brisk sub-acid, keeps 

 well. It is also well known as a blight-resistant stock. 



BOKEWOOD (Bullock's Seedling), W. A first-class Australian 

 dessert apple of good keeping and carrying quality, and an abun- 

 dant bearer. Sizes uneven when the tree gets old, requiring sort- 

 ing. Fruit roundish, oblate, skin deep orange, heavily shaded with 

 crimson, and dotted with brown russet. Eye somewhat open, tube 

 conical and short, stamens medium, core ovate, axile, and solid. 

 Flesh yellowish, firm, sugary, and juicy. Stalk short, set in a conical 

 basin lined with russet. 



SPRINGDALE, W. An apple of recent origin, and a fine late 

 keeper of large size. Colour, bright red. Tree hardy, good grower, 

 and blight-proof, dark-green foliage, said to be a regular and heavy 

 bearer. 



NEWTOWN PIPPIN (New York), W. Eipens late in the winter. 

 Fruit medium size, roundish, little irregular, caused by two or three 

 obscure ribs on the sides. Skin dull green, changing to olive 

 green, brownish on the sunny side, dotted with small grey specks. 

 Flesh greenish-white, very juicy, crisp, with delicious aromatic 

 flavour. It commands a high price in Coveiit Garden market, 

 London. When in perfection stands unrivalled in all the qualities 

 which constitute a high-flavoured dessert apple, to which it com- 

 bines the quality of long keeping without the least shrivelling, 

 retaining its high flavour to the last. The tree, like the yellow 

 Newtown Pippin, is of rather slender and slow growth, and even 

 while young is remarkable for its rough bark. Should be tried 

 with caution first, to ascertain whether it suits the locality. Re- 

 quires a fertile, strong, deep, warm soil to attain its full perfection, 

 and should be well manured every two or three years. 



RYMER (English), W. Tree vigorous, productive. Fruit 

 ripens late ; large and beautiful deep red, covered with yellowish 

 grey dots on sunny side, faint streaks of pale red with reddish- 

 brown dots on shaded side, roundish and flattened with five obscure 

 ribs on the sides ; eye closed ; stalk short, in a round deep cavity 

 lined with rough russet. Flesh yellowish, tender, and sub-acid. 



STRAWBERRY PIPPIN, W. Large late apple, a good keeper; 

 white flesh, tender, juicy, sub-acid ; colour, yellow, splashed with red. 



SHOCKLEY, W. Medium size, somewhat conical ; pale yellow 

 overspread with red and small dots ; late, good keeper ; tree early 

 and regular bearer, productive. 



