144 AUTUMN AFIL^S. 



Summer Golden Pippin. Small, ovate, flattened at apex , 

 bright yellow, stalk short ; flesh firm, crisp, and rich. 

 Last of summer. English. 



Sugar Loaf Pippin. Kather large, long ovate-conical, regu- 

 lar, handsome, smooth, pale yellowish white ; stalk short, 

 sub-acid, second or third rate. Admired in England; 

 good for cooking, fair, productive. 



White Astrachan. Medium in size, roundish, slightly coni- 

 cal, ribbed at apex, smooth, nearly white ; stalk thick 

 and short ; flesh white, pellucid, sub-acid, dry. Of little 

 value here ; fine in England. Russian. 



White Juneating. (Syn. Bracken, of Ohio.) Small, round, 

 sometimes slightly oblate, smooth, very regular; pale 

 greenish yellow, or light yellow ; very thin russet round 

 the stalk ; stalk slender, three-quarters of an inch long, 

 set shallow ; basin very shallow ; tender, sub-acid, not 

 rich, becoming dry, second or third rate flavor. Ripens a 

 little before Yellow Harvest. Growth upright, rather 

 stout. Productive. For cooking only. 



The May apple, of Virginia, is a fruit similar in character 

 and quality to the White Juneating, where it ripens about 

 the first of summer, bearing every year. Large quanti- 

 ties are sent to Baltimore for tarts. 



DIVISION II -AUTUMN APPLES 



Class I. — Sweet Apples. 



Section I. — Striped with red. 



Beauty of the West. Large, round, smooth, marked with 

 small stripes of red on greenish yellow; stalk short; 

 sweet, second rate. 



Blenheim Pippin. (Syn. Woodstock Pippin, Bleinhim 

 Orange.) Large, roundish-conical ; mottled and striped 

 orange-red on yellow ground ; stalk short ; sweet, second 

 or third rate flavor. Used for baking. English. 



