APPLES. 37 



RECIPES. 



THE APPLE. 



"Bed and russet and yellow 

 Lying there in a heap. 



Pippins rounded and mellow. 



Greening's for winter's keep. 



Appl3s, scarlet and golden. 



Apples, juicy and tart-^'' 



Of all the fruits of the earth none can vie with the apple 

 in point of usefulness to the inhabitants of the North 

 Temperate Zone. It may truthf'.iUy be said thnt the ap- 

 ple holds the same relation to fruit that wheat holds to 

 grains. Prepared in one form or another, the palate 

 never wearies of the dishes which grow out of it as a basis 

 or ingredient. 



The apple tree is indigenous to the North as the orange 

 is to the South. Travelers vie with each other in praising 

 the beauty of the latter during the season of bloom, but 

 there can hardly be seen upon all the round earth a fairer 

 sight than an orchard in JVIay-time. There is a piquant 

 and peculiar richness in the fragrance, a hardy loveliness 

 of bud and blossom upon the gnarled and ragged stems 

 which the smoother and tamer orange misses. Each has 

 its own beauty and its own usefulness. Yet are we apt 

 to under-rate that which is common, in favor of its distant 



