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DESCRIPTIONS OF APPLES. 



Wharton, who may have brought it Tvith him from the 

 East. For a time some of our leading pomologists 

 thought it was the Canada JReinette, but this idea has 

 long since been relinquished, and all agree that it is sui 

 ffeneris, though it may have had a different name. In 

 some of its external characters it more nearly resembles 



Fig. 257. — WHITE piprui. 



the Yellow Nievstown JHppin than any otlier fruit ; but, 

 while it lacks the high, spicy flavor of that apple, it is 

 found to be much more profitable in the orchard. 



The tree is remarkably thrifty, vigorous and produc- 

 tive, upriglit, with very dark shoots, covered with down, 

 bearing large leaves that are quite downy beneath, and 

 deep green above. 



Fruit large, \-ariable in form, angular, sometimes lop- 

 sided, generally fair, free from scab; Surface smooth, green 

 or greenish-white to very pale yellow when ripe; the 

 skin toward the base is often marked on the unripe apple 

 with indistinct wavy stripes of white, the interspaces are 

 sometimes colored by exposure, and assume a pink or pnr- 



