334 APPLES. 



Russet Pearmain. Size medium, roundish-conical ; faint red stripes 

 on greenish yellow ground ; flesh juicy, tender, rich, fine sub-acid 

 flavor. Through winter. 



Shockley. (Waddel's Hall.) Medium, roundish-oblong, narrow- 

 ing to the eye; yellow striped and clouded with red, with dark 

 greenish russet blotches ; stalk long, slender ; cavity narrow, deep ; 

 flesh firm, of good but not high flavor. Georgia. Ripens from 

 October to March. Wm. N. White. 



Siloam. Medium, oblate, regular, smooth ; yellow, with dull red 

 stripes and splashes, dots numerous, small, light gray ; basin shal- 

 low, regular ; eye small, closed ; cavity shallow, russeted ; stem 

 very short ; flesh yellow, juicy, sub-acid, rich, very good. Arkan- 

 sas. 



Skrnishapfel. Medium ; flat, conical, ribbed ; yellow, flushed and 

 striped with red ; cavity and basin shallow and ribbed ; flesh firm, 

 sub-acid. Mid-winter. Belongs to Cross apple family, and may 

 prove identical with the Russian Baldwin. Russian. 



Fig. 442. Fig. 443.— Westfield, Pig. 444. 



Esopus Spitzenburgh. Seek-no-Further. Wagener. 



Smith Cider.* Medium or rather large, roundish-oblong, some- 

 what flattened at the ends ; shaded and slightly striped with light 

 red on pale greenish yellow, with a few conspicuous whitish, 

 yellow dots ; stalk slender, cavity rather deep, calyx large ; basin 

 shallow, wrinkled ; flesh whitish, tender, crisp, with a sub-acid, 

 moderate flavor. Grown in Pennsylvania and the Ohio valley. 

 Valued for its hardiness, productiveness, and handsome fruit. 

 Pennsylvania. Fig. 423. 



Spitzenburgh, Esopus.* Rather large, roundrovate, slightly coni- 

 cal ; surface a high rich i-ed, rather obscurely striped ; stalk 

 three-fourths of an inch long, rather slender ; basin shallow, 

 slightly furrowed; flesh yellow, firm, crisp, spicy, rather acid, 

 nearly unequalled in its high rich flavor. Keeps through winter. 

 Shoots ascending and erect, rather slender leaves crenate. Usually 

 a moderate bearer. Fig. 442. Succeeds best in New York, its 

 native State. 



Sutton Beauty.* Fruit large, roundish ; skin waxen yellow, striped 

 and shaded with crimson, very handsome; flesh white, tender, 



