THE APPLE. ITS VARIETIES. 



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with patches and streaks of livelier red, and dotted with light grey dots. 

 Eye, large and open, with broad reflexed segments, and placed in a large 



angular basin, which is marked with russet. Stalk, an inch long, thick 

 and strong, deeply set in an angular cavity. Flesh, greenish-white, firm, 

 crisp, and juicy, with a pleasant and briskly acid flavor. 



A culinary apple of first-rate quality ; in use firom November to 

 January. 



The tree is a pretty good bearer, one of the strongest and most vigor- 

 ous growers, and consequently more suitable for the orchard than the 

 fruit garden. 



This is a very old variety, being mentioned by Parkinson, Leonard 

 Meager, and Ray, but there is no notice of it in the works of any sub- 

 sequent writer till the publication of Forsyth's Treatise. 



127. FLUSHING SPITZENBURGH.— Down. 



Identification — ^Down. Fr. Amer. 139. 



Fruit, medium sized ; roundish, narrowing towards the eye. Skin, 

 entirely covered with deep red, which is streaked with deeper red, 

 except on any small portion where it has been shaded, and there it is 

 green, marked with broken streaks and mottles of red, the whole surface 

 strewed with light grey russety dots. Eye, small and closed, very slightly 

 depressed, and surrounded with plaits. Stalk, nearly an inch long, in- 

 serted in a deep and russety cavity. Flesh, greenish, tender, sweet, 

 juicy, and without any predominance of acid. 



