THE APPLE. 



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Fruit largo, round, very regular; surface very smooth, becoming 

 unctuous, clear, rich, golden yellow; dots green, minute, few, distinct, 

 a few minute russet dots; cavity rather deep, wide, regular, acuminate, 

 with faint trace of russet; stem long, slender at insertion, yellow; 

 basin smootli, shallow, regular; calyx closed; segments divergent. 

 Core open, regular, meeting; cells obovatc, entire, aljaxile; tulse con- 

 ical; stamens median; seeds numerous, small, pointed, plump, light 



GoI'len Sweet. 



brown; flcsfi yellow, fine-grained, juicy, rich, aromatic, ver}- good 

 August and September. 



Golden White (\os. 978, 979, 9S1).— Origin, Russia. This name is 

 not descriptive but was retained for the present by tlie Russian No- 

 menclature Commission. 



Fruit large, roundish, somewhat tapering, sometimes angular; 

 surface yellow, with dark crimson splashes, mixed and marbled; dots 

 large, gra3'ish white, distinct; cavity shallow, wide, with radiating 

 patch of russet; stem medium; liasin sliallow, narrow, corrugated; 

 calvx half open. Calyx tube funnel-shaped; stamens median; flesh 

 vellowish white, pleasant subacid, good. Late fall, between Olden- 

 burg and Longfield. 



