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The tree is a free grower and very hardy, riot subject to canker, and 

 attains the largest size. It is very prolific when it has acquired its full 

 growth, which, in good soil, it will do in fifteen or twenty years ; and 

 even in a young state it is a good bearer. If grafted on the paradise 

 stock it may be grown as an open dwarf or an espalier. The bloom is 

 very hardy, and withstands the night frosts of spring better than most 

 other varieties. 



This, above all other apples, is the most highly esteemed in Germany. Diel 

 calls it the Pride of the Germans. It is believed to have originated either at a 

 ■village of Misnia, called Borsdorf, or at a place of the same name near Leipsic. 

 According to Forsyth, it was such a favourite with Queen Charlotte, that she had a 

 considerable quantity of them annually imported from Germany, for her own 

 private use. It is one of the earliest recorded varieties of the continental authors, 

 but does not seem to have been known in this country before the close of the last 

 century. It was first grown in the Brompton Park Nursery in 1785. It is men- 

 tioned by Cordus, in 1561, as being cultivated in Misnia ; which circumstance has 

 no doubt given rise to the synonyme "Beinette de Misnie " ; he also informs us it 

 is highly esteemed for Its sweet and generous flavour, and the pleasant perfume 

 which it exhales. Wittichius, in his " Methodas Simplicium," attributes to it the 

 power of dispelling epidemic fevers and madness ! 



BOSSOM. — Fruit, large and conical; handsomely and regularly 

 formed. Skin, pale greenish yellow, considerably covered with russet, 

 and occasionally marked with bright red next the sun. Eye, set in a 

 shallow and plaited basin. Stalk, an inch long, inserted in a rather 

 deep cavity. Flesh, yellowish white, tender, crisp, juicy, and sugary, 

 and with a pleasant sub-acid flavour. 



An excellent culinary apple, though not of the first quality ; in use 

 during December and January. The flesh is said to assume a fine 

 colour when baked. 



BOSTON EUSSET (Roxbury Russet; Shippen's Russet ; Putman's 

 Russet). — Fruit, medium sized, three inches and a quarter wide, and 

 two inches and a half high ; roundish, somewhat flattened, narrowing 

 towards the apex, and slightly angular. Skin, covered entirely with 

 brownish yellow russet intermixed with green, and sometimes with a 

 faint tinge of reddish brown next the sun. Eye, closed, set in a round 

 and rather shallow basin. Stalk, long, slender, and inserted in a 

 moderately deep cavity. Flesh, yellowish white, juicy, sugary, briskly 

 and richly flavoured. 



A very valuable dessert apple, of the first quality ; in season from 

 January to April, and will even keep till June. It partakes much of 

 the flavour of the Bibston Pippin, and as a late winter dessert apple 

 is not to be surpassed. 



The tree is not large, but healthy, very hardy, and an immense 

 bearer, and, when grafted on the paradise stock, is well suited for being 

 grown either as a dwarf or an espalier. 



This is an old American variety, and one of the few introduced to this country 

 which attains perfection in onr climate. It is extensively grown in the neighbour- 

 hood of Boston, U.S., both for home consumption and exportation, and realises a 

 considerable and profitable return to the growers. 



