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DBBCBIFTIONS OF APPT,ES, 



Fig. 327. — MOBZ'S PAVOKITB. 



NeTerwink. 



Not having had an opportunity of examining this fruit, 

 I quote the ad interim report of the Pennsylvania Horti- 

 cultural Society : 



" Origin Bei'ks County, Pennsylvania. 



" Fruit large, roundish, exterior of an exceedingly beau- 

 tiful waxen orange-yellow color, with a few russet dots, 

 and a delicately striped and riclily mottled carmine cheek ; 

 Stem very short and rather stout, cavity narrow, acumi- 

 nate, shallow ; Calyx large, basin deep, rather wide, fiir- 

 roweil ; Flesh yellowish, somewhat tough, owing to the 

 feet of its being shriveled ; Flavor approaches to that of a 

 pineapple ; Quality very good ; December to April." 



jVe-wark King^. 



An old apple, supposed to liave come from New Jersey; 

 found in the oldest orchards of grafted fruits in South- 

 western Ohio, seldom elsewbere in the West "that I have 



