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the gray Vandevere. Apt to speck and rot. Large tree, 

 thrifty and productive. Cooks well with sugar, but coarse 

 and tart when raw. 



Virginia Greening. Color, green ; form, round, flat ; 

 size, 2 ; use, kitchen ; quality, 3 ; season, very late in 

 Spring, or beginning of Summer. 



Eemarks. — Unworthy. " Long keeper, but valueless." 

 — Trans. Ohio Pom. Society. Exhibited at the Cincinnati 

 Horticultural Society's Rooms very late in the season. 

 The Eruit Committee " can not recommend this variety for 

 the table, yet it keeps well, and will command a good 

 price in the market in the Spring." It is a passable apple 

 next Summer — very different from the Grindstone, or 

 American Pippin. This used to be a great favorite in 

 this neighborhood (now fortunately times have changed), 

 but it has lost of late its character of a good keejDer. 

 It rots badly on the trees. We consider it a very poor 

 apple, and not to be recommended. 



Wagener. Color, shaded, and indistinctly striped with 

 pale red, and a full, deep red in the sun, on warm, yel- 

 low ground, often streaked with russet; form, oblate, 

 obscurely ribbed ; size, 1; use, table; season, ripens early 

 in the Winter. Very delicate. 



Eemarks. — Much admired in New York ; flesh yellow- 

 ish, very fine grained, tender, compact, mild, sub-acid, 

 very aromatic ; excellent. Should be freely trimmed, to 

 produce large, fine fruit in abundance. 



Watson's Dumpling. Color, yellowish green, faintly 

 striped ; form, nearly round, regular ; size, 1 ; use, for 

 cooking; quality, 2; season, early Winter, or late Fall, 

 in Ohio. 



Eemarks. — English. Indifferent, poor. 



