486 DBSCEIPTIONS OV APPLES. 



Fruit large, roundish-oblate, uneven ; Surface smooth, 

 yellow, blushed; Dots numerous, minute, with white 

 bases. 



Basin abrupt, uneven ; Eye large, closed. 



Cavity medium, wavy ; Stem short. 



Core wide, closed, not meeting the eye ; Seeds numer- 

 ous, large, plump ; Flesh yellow, breaking ; Flavor acid ; 

 quality pretty good ; Use, kitchen, table ; Season, Decem- 

 V)er, January. 



CLASS L— FLAT APPLES. 



ORDER II.— IRREGULAR 



SECTION 2.— ACID. 



SUB-SECTION 2.— STKIPED. 



Berry. 



Not having enjoyed an opportunity of examining this 

 fruit, I quote from my friend Chas. Downing. 



" Origin Virginia or North Carolina. Tree vigorous, 

 upright, very productive, and a valuable market fruit. 



"Fruit rather above medium, obliquely depressed; Skin 

 striped and splashed with red, on greenish-yellow ground, 

 with large dots, having a dark center; Stem short, in a 

 generally broad, deep cavity ; Calyx open ; Basin shallow, 

 and uneven ; Flesh rather coarse, juicy, with a pleasant 

 sub-acid flavor ; November to March." 



Bitflr. 



For description of this fruit I take Downing's quotation 

 from White's Gardener: 



" Origin uncertain ; Tree vigorous, erect ; Frait very 

 large, irregular, roundish flattened and slightly irregular ; 

 Skill thick, yellow, striped, and shaded with red, very dark 

 next the sun, marked with a few greenish russet spots ; 

 Stem three-fourths of an inch long, in a medium cavity ; 

 Calyx in a large, irregular basin ; Flesh white, and when 

 fully ripened, tender and excellent, sometimes indifferent ; 

 November to March. 



