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States. "A very good little apple in this region. A 

 great bearer, and a good keeper, but not to be compared 

 with White Winter Pearinain, with which it has been so 

 long confounded, it being decidedly sweet. There is, also, 

 a diflference in the shape. The tree grows differently, 

 being very upright ; and the fruit does not keep as well ; 

 the seeds, also, differ." — T. V. Petticolas. 



Mifflin King. Color, red ; form, oblong ; size, 3 ; use, 

 table ; quality, 1 ; season, early Fall. 



Eemarks. — Thought better than the Eambo in Penn. 

 Tender, juicy, " first rate." A little redder than Eambo. 



MILAM, or Blair. Color, green and red ; form, round ; 

 size, 2, sometimes nearly 3 (tree being full) ; use, table and 

 kitchen ; quality, 2 to 1 ; season, ISTovember to February. 



Eemarks. — A great bearer. Much grown in Illinois, 

 Ohio and Kentucky, near Cincinnati. Early productive. 

 "Blair, of Chillicothe. Hardy, productive. Winter." — 

 Travis. Ohio Pom. Society. Exhibited constantly at the 

 Cincinnati Horticultural Society Eooms. Eeport of Fruit 

 Committee, " Extensively known throughout the West. 

 In many places it has been propagated by root suckers, 

 by the early settlers. This fruit, though only of second- 

 rate flavor, has so many good qualities, that we desire to 

 present it to the Society. It is a profuse and regular 

 bearer, though of rather small size. It is juicy (unless 

 very late), and tender ; may be eaten in the Fall and Win- 

 ter, and is not difficult to keep until Spring. The country 

 people frequently preserve them in open rail pens, lined 

 and covered with straw. On the contrary, though of a 

 delicate texture, it is deficient in flavor, resembling in its 

 character that of the Westfield Seek-no-further, to which 

 fruit it has many relations. We can not rank it higher 

 than second-rate, but it comes up a littU beyond this." 



