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kitchen at any time during the Winter. Near Cincinnati 

 it is subject to be injured and disfigured with hard, black 

 spots, generally considered of vegetable origin, or fungus, 

 but they do not induce decay. " Ifewtown Pippin is 

 often inferior. If the stem Ojf the tree is trimmed up 

 to full standard hight, the bark becomes very dry and 

 rough, and the top seems to starve, even in a rich soil." — 

 American Pom. Society, received from Reports from Pennsyl- 

 vania. Both the yellow and the green Newtown have 

 russet marks at the stalk. (See Appendix, 54.) 



NEWTOWN SPITZENBUE&, or Ox Eye. Color, 

 red on yellow ; form, round, flattened, often one-sideS ; 

 size, 1 , use, table ; quality, 1 ; season, from October to 

 January. (See Appendix, 55.) 



Eemarks. — " Ox Eye of Cincinnati." — Trans. Ohio Pom. 

 Society. One of the best table fruits we have for Decem- 

 ber. Grown North, it keeps longer, and is neater and 

 smaller, more regular, and less wormy, and less liable to 

 fall than with us. It is highly esteemed in the West. 

 How Downing came to call this old familiar fruit, Vande- 

 vere, is a wonder. It came from Long Island. Sometimes 

 called Joe Berry, in Kentucky, as well as Ox Bye, at Cin- 

 cinnati, and in the West. (See Ox Eye, and Joe Berry.) 



Nichajach Apple. 



Eemakks. — A Southern fruit, and very good. 



-NONSUCH (see T?ed Canada), Richfield, or Canada 

 Red. Color, red- on yellow ; form, roundish conical ; 

 size, 3 ; use, table ; quality, 2 ; season, from December to 

 February. 



Eemarks. — Superior. Exhibited at Horticultural Soci- 

 ety's Eooms by J. E. Mottier. Tree, very productive, 

 thrifty. Much grown North. 

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