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DEBCEIPTIONS OF APPLES. 



This valuable Southern keeper bids fair to become a 

 great favorite. 



Tiee thrifty, very productive; Fruit small, globular, 

 truncated, regular, handsome ; Surface smooth, mixed 



bright red , and 

 splashed crimson on 

 pale yellow ; Dots 

 few, minute. 



Basin shallow, 

 wide, regular; Eye 

 small but long, 

 closed ; Calyx re- 

 flexed. 



Cavity deep, reg- 

 ular, brown ; Stem 

 medium to long , 

 slender. 



Core medium, reg- 

 ular, closed, or slightly open, clasping ; Seeds numerous, 

 angular, dark ; Flesh yellow, firm, finS-graihed, juicy ; 

 Flavor sub-acid, agreeable ; Use, dessert ; Season, Decem- 

 ber till March or longer ; Quality very good. 



Fig. 208. — BACCALIKUS. 



Beauty of Kent. 



A large English apple, well adapted to the kitchen. 

 Tree upright, vigorous, rather productive. 



Fruit large to very large, roundish, flattened, somewhat 

 conic, regular ; Surface greenish yellow, more or less cov- 

 ered with bright red mixed, and splashed with a darker 

 hue ; Dots small. 



Basin quite shallow, regular ; Eye veiy small closed. 



Cavity medium, acute, wavy, green ; Stem medium to 

 short. 



Core regular, medium, ovate, slightly open, clasping 

 the eye ; Seeds angular, imperfect ; Flesh whitish yellow, 

 breaking, juicy ; Flavor acid; Quality only good; Use, 

 cooking and market, for which it is well adapted by its 

 size and appearance ; Season, Septenaber and October. 



