APPLES. 17 



BENONI. Color, striped red ; form, round ; size, 2 ; 

 use, table ; quality, 1; season, July and August. (See 

 Appendix, 12.) 



Eemarks. — Excellent ; one of the best early fruits ; 

 flesh, yellow; a good bearer; sub-aoid, and pleasant. 

 Often exhibited before the Cincinnati Horticultural Soci- 

 ety ; considered by the Fruit Committee of the Society, 

 " prolific, pleasantly acid, and very agreeable." A strong, 

 upright, good grower. " Handsome, early and good." — 

 Trans. Ohio Pom. Society. Comes into bearing early. 



Bentley Sweet. Color, red and yellow striped, or 

 blotched ; form, oblong, itregular, flattened at ends ; sea- 

 son, September to January. 



Eemarks. — " Good as a long keeper." — Trans. Ohio 

 Pom.- Society. 



Bevan. Color, broad red stripes on yellow ground ; 

 form, roundish, flattened, slightly conical; size, 3; use, 

 table ; quality, 3 ; season, July and August. 



Eemaeks. — Origin, Ohio. Good for market purposes 

 to carry long distances. But at any rate of little value, 

 when there are so many so much better. " Of but little 

 value." — Trans. Ohio Pom. Society. 



Beefsteah. 



Eemarks. — "Not approved." — Trans. Ohio Pom. Society. 



Better-than-good. Size, 2 ; use, table ; quality, 2. 

 Eemarks. — Bears too much. A Pennsylvania apple. 



Bethlehemite. Color, striped red ; form, regular ; size, 

 2 ; season, October till April ; quality, 2. Delicate. 



Eemarks. — "Eesembles the IsTewtown Spitzenburg in 

 appearance." — Trans. Ohio Pom. Society. Well worthy of 

 introduction and propagation. A fine grower. 

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