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DESCEIPTIONS OF APPLES. 



brought to the West by different routes — ^by the Ohio 

 River and by the lakes — and has been universally distrib- 

 uted. Those brought to the mouth of the Muskingum 

 River, and proj)agated by Mr. Putnam, had the name 

 changed to that of the Marietta and the Putnam Russet ; 

 and at the same time the appearance of the fruit was so 

 altered by increase in the russeting, that it was long 

 thought to be a different variety, until the question was 

 at length settled by interchange of grafts ; and when 

 these fruited the identity Avas jiroyed. 



It is claimed that more m(mey has been realized from 

 this than from any other variety, though, on the Ohio 



Fig. 135. — BOXBUKT RnSSET. 



River, the Rome Beauty is considered to be equally prof- 

 itable. Tlie popularity of this Russet is on the wane, 

 however, as it is very subject to attacks of the Codling- 

 moth, which makes it fall, and because it is apt to ripen 

 too early in the season in southern locations and on lime- 

 stone soils. Hence its value as a keeping apple is diminished. 



Tree robust, vigorous, spreading ; Shoots stout, strag- 

 gling, dark; Foliage gray-green. 



Fruit large, oblate, often lop-sided at the West, fre- 



