CLASS I. FLAT APPLES. — I. II. II. 459 



Basin wide, deep, regular ; Eye quite small, closed. 



Cavity wide, wavy, green ; Stem long, slender. 



Core wide, regular, closed, meeting the eye ; Seeds nu- 

 merous, long, ])ointed; Flesh yellow, breaking, coarse- 

 grained ; Flavor sub-acid, not rich; Quality scarcely good; 

 valuable for market, on account of its prod uctiveness, size 

 and beauty, as well as for its certain bearing ; Season De- 

 cember to February. 



Shia'wassee Besinly. 



This Michigan apple may well be called Beauty. It 

 was introduced at the meeting of the American Pomo- 



Fig. 112. — SHIAWASSEE BEAUTY. 



logical Society in 1862, by T. T. Lyon, of Plymouth, 

 Mich., w;ho stated that it was a seedling of the Fameuse, 

 the faults of which it does not inherit, though possessing 

 all the good qualities of its parent, with a healthy and 

 productive tree. (See Michigan Fai-mer, Dec. 11, 1859.) 



Fruit medium, very liandsome, very regular, quite flat ; 

 Surface very smooth, pale yellow, mixed and distinctly 

 striped carmine ; Dots scattered, m.inute. 



Basin wide, folded; Eye medium, closed ; Calyx reflexed. 



Cavity wide, wavy ; Stem short. 



