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gle with the trunk ; they are frequently defaced witn marks 

 of diseased liction that are called cauleer. The twigs are 

 reddish and rather slender ; the leaves are pale green, large, 

 broad. 



Fruit large, globular-oblate, regular, sometimes unequal, 

 liglit ; Surface smooth, pale waxen-yellow, with a little 

 mixed scarlet and very distinctly marked carmine ; Dots 

 scattered, minute. 



Basin regular, abrupt, deep ; Eye small, closed. 



Cavity wide, regular, grecTi ; Stem medium, green. 



Core small, closed, just meeting the eye ; Seeds numer- 

 ous, plump, short, dark ; Flesh pale yellow, fine-grained, 

 tender, almost melting, juicy ; very mild sub-acid, aromat- 

 ic ; of first quality for table, kitchen or market (too good 

 for drying, but makes a superior article of anits) ; Season 

 September and October. 



l>r. YVatson. 



AUTUMN SEEK-HO-FCRTHER OF INDIANA. 



This delicious and beautiful dessert apple is much grown 

 in Central and Eastern Indiana, particularly among the 

 Friends. It was for a long time a puzzle to the pomolo- 

 gists. In the meanwhile it must have a name, and withont 

 waiting for the decision of the learned, the people in dif- 

 ferent sections, withont consultation, called it the Avttumn 

 Seek-no-further. Finally the Horticultural Societies de- 

 cided that it was an old sort named Doctor Watson, though 

 upon what authority does not appear. The fruit has not 

 been recognized by our Eastern friends, nor by the Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society, to which it was referred in 1860. 



Tree large, spreading, very productive ; Twigs slender, 

 foliage small, pale green ; in the nursery it is a poor 

 grower. 



Fruit medium to large, unless when too crowded, regu- 

 lar, oblate, sometimes unequal ; Surface smooth, mixed pale 

 and red on waxen-yellow, beautifully splashed with scar- 

 let ; Dots minute. 



I Basin abrupt, rather deep, wide, regular, sometimes 

 cracked ; Eye medium, open. 



Cavity wide, regular or wavy, brown ; Stem medium to 

 short. 



