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(Cincinnati). Wo must wait a little. This variety, 

 however, like the Gate, or Waxen and Baldwin, etc., is 

 ripened too soon, in this latitude, to be a first-rate Winter 

 fruit, losing much of the excellent flavor possessed by 

 them, where found in perfection. "If ever the trees of 

 this fruit come into bearing with us, we will be able to 

 say something more about them. We have had them 

 grafted seven j^ears without fruit yet." — T. V. Petticolas. 

 The Northern Spy may probably become a good apple 

 here. This fruit has done well at Madison, Indiana, and 

 also at Louisville and St. Louis. Will not keep so long 

 here as at New York. 



Old English Codlin. See Codlin._ 



Orange Apple. 



Eeiiarks. — " Not deemed valuable." — Tt-ans. Ohio Pom. 

 Society. 



Orange Sweeting, Golden Sweet. 



Eemarks. — Flourishes well in all soils. Yields fine 

 crops of fair fruit. Tree of medium size, branches strag- 

 gling. A good fruit for apple butter and molasses. 



Orndoef. Color, lemon yellow, rich, red blush in sun, 

 stripes and blotches of red; form, roundish, slightly 

 angular; size, 2; use, table; quality, 1 to 2; season, Sep- 

 tember to November. 



Eemarks. — "Of Putnam, Ohio. Little known." — Trans. 

 Ohio Pom. Society. Plesh, yellowish, juicy, crisp, tender, 

 sub-acid. Eeally a good apple. 



Ortley Pippin, with some twenty synonymes ; among 

 the best known, are White Bellflower, Hollow- Core Pippin, 

 Detroit, and Golden Pippin. Color, pale yellowish -white at 



