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file North, a richer yellow more South, with some specks 

 of dark rod ; form, oblong oval, sometimes roundish con- 

 ical ; size, large, or No. 1 on rich soils ; use, table ; qual- 

 ity, 1 ; season, December to April. 



Remarks. — "One of the most agreeable and digestible 

 of all ajDples, with a mild, sub-acid, abundant juice, with- 

 out any remarkable or high flavor." — Trans. Ohio Pom. 

 Society. Excellent in strong soils. This is one of our 

 " good " apples, only. Delicate, certainly not highly 

 flavored, but most easy of digestion. Its size has been 

 considerably increased in the West. Originally from 

 th(j orchards of New Jersey, it has been widely dis- 

 tributed throughout the West. It is considered rather 

 too acid for some palates. 



OX APPLE, or Ox Eye, and Joe Berry • see Newtown 

 Spilzenburg. 



Eemarks. — A delicious apple, as before described, but 

 drops worse than any ajiple we have. By the time they 

 are ripo they are all gone, not only on old, but young 

 trees. We can not recommend it ou that account, but 

 it may do better in some soils. A neighbor, whose trees 

 are all dead from age, etc., did not remark that fault. 



Peach Pond Sweet. Color, striped red and yellow; 

 form, oblong ; size, 2 ; use, table ; quality, 1 ; season, early 

 September to last of October. 



Eemarks. — A great bearer. A favorite dessert apple 

 of all who taste it. Prom the orchard of E. Buchanan, 

 Esq., Clifton, Cincinnati. 



" Pennock's Red Winter, or Phoenix, by some, the same as 

 the Largo Eomanite, of Kentucky. Color, red; form, 

 roundish flattened, almost invariably one-sided ; size, 1 ; 



