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"""Popular Summer cooking apple." — Trans. Ohio Pom. 

 Society. It is very similar to the Dutch Codlin. " The 

 English Codlins coddle here as -well as in their native 

 land, where they have passed into a proverb for their 

 supreme excellence as a stewing apple ; but that called 

 the English Codlin here, is often blotched and knotty." — 

 Trans. Am. Pom. Society. It is not SO, near Cincinnati. 

 " Summer apples, of the best English sorts, invariably 

 become too acid under our sun. ( ! ) Eed Astrachan, from 

 North of Europe, is acid and dry." — Trans. Am. Pom. 

 Society. Keswick Codlin, exhibited often by the author at 

 Cincinnati Horticultural Booms, and very fair and fine. 



Clyde Beauty, or Mackie^s. Color, pale greenish yel- 

 low, striped and mottled with light red, deep crimson in 

 the sun ; form, roundish conical, slightly ribbed ; size, 1 ; 

 use, table; quality, 2 ; season, September to December. 



Eemarks. — Deserves to be cultivated, from its fine- 

 grained, juicy, sub-acid, very pleasant qualities. 



Cole. Color, bright red ; form, roundish, little conical ; 

 size, 1 to 2; use, table; quality, 2; season, July and 

 August. 



Eemarks. — An early bearer, and a pleasant, sprightly 

 fruit ; also hardy. Fruit, juicy and " very good." 



COOPEE. Color, greenish yellow, with stripes and 

 blotches of pale red ; form, roundish, flattened ; size, 1 ; 

 use, table ; quality, 2; season, August to November. 



Eemarks. — Best on rich, limestone clay. Eather sub- 

 ject to canker.o Flesh, yellowish, crisp, juicy. It is 



''One sort of Canker proceeds, we think, from the ravages of the 

 wUte aphis, or apple louse, which has the appearance of a white mold. 



Another kind of Canker of apple trees may, in some situations, be 

 caused by the uncongenial nature of the soil. A person hsls informed us 



