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Buckingham (Fall Queen). — An old favorite variety from Virginia; 

 tree upright, slightly spreading, moderately vigorous and productive. 



Buckingliam. 



Fruit large, variable, generally conical or oblate conical, truncated 

 angular; surface greenish yellow, mostly covered, shaded, striped 

 and splashed with two shades of crimson or purplish red; dots nu- 

 merous, light browii; cavity broad, deep, slight!}' russeted; stem 

 short; basin rather large, deep, slightly irregular and corrugated; 

 calyx closed; segments connivent. Core? small; axis very short: 

 seeds many, long, pointed; tube conical; flesh yello^visli, rath(;r 

 coarse, breaking, tender, juicy, mild, sprightly subacid, very good to 

 best. November to February. 



Bullock {American Golden Ru.tset). — A delicious apple, with flesh 

 more like a buttery pear tlian that of an ordinary apple. An old Xew 

 Jersey variety mentioned by Coxe in 1817. Tree thrifty, shoots up- 

 right, dull reddish, grayish brown. 



Fruit medium or below, roundish, somewhat conical; surface 

 greenish yellow to orange or golden, with more or less of very thin 

 russet, often with distinct bronzed blush; dots obscure, few, minute; 

 cavity rather shallow, acute, regular; stem long, slender; basin 



