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DESCRIPTIONS 



B. Ends unequal. 

 Ross's Nonpareil. Medium size, circular. Calyx depression shallow. Stem long ; insertion 

 deep, and protruding beyond the base. 

 tBowvER's Russet. Below the medium size, circular. Calyx depression small. Stem half an 

 inch long; depression regular. 

 Pitmaston Russet or Nonpareil. Medium size, flat. Calyx depression broad and shallow. 

 Stem short; insertion shallow. 



DESCRIPTION OF AUTUMN APPLES. 



Class I. Red, or red striped upon yellow or red ground, or with brownish stripes, ornaments, etc. 



Order I. Height and breadth equal or subequal. 



A. Ends equal or subequal. 



1. WESTFIELD SEEKNOFURTHER. 



Fig. 8. 



Fruit of the medium size, excentric, 

 rather elongaied. Calyx implanted 

 in a shallow depression, with a large 

 funnel-form space towards the core. 

 Stem rather short and thick ; depres- 

 sion ecpialing the crown; base rounded. 

 Color, ground yellow and striped with 

 carmine, deeper on the sunny side, 

 greenish russet within the stem depres- 

 sion, dotted upon the bright side. 

 Taste and flavor not very unlike a 

 Spitzenberg. Ripe in October, but 

 keeps till January, and is usually re- 

 garded as a winter apple. 



2. FALL STRAWBERRY. Plate 25. 

 Fruit of the medium size ; ends subequal ; breadth somewhat greater than the height, 

 circular, slightly compressed. Stem rather long, and set in a deep and rather wide 

 regular depression. Calyx medium size and depth, closed, and surrounded by a wide 

 crown. Color, bright yellow ground, striped with red, and deeper upon the sunny side ; 

 crown bright yellow, and the red distributed about the base. Flesh white with a faint 

 reddish tinge; juice rich, subacid. Core small. Calyx-tube closed. Ripe in October. 

 Exhibited at the New-York Fruit Convention in 1848. 



