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DESCRIPTIONS 



75. FALLAWATER. Plate 46, fig. 1. 

 Fruit about the medium size, symmetrical, circular, breadth and length equal. Color 

 green, enlivened with a clear well defined scarlet cheek. Stem thick ; depression nar- 

 row and close. Calyx small, closed; depression nearly obsolete. Flesh subacid, firm, 

 fine flavored ; a good keeper. Ripens late in the fall or early winter. 

 Origin in Pennsylvania. 



76. POTTER'S LARGE APPLE (Hort. Soc. Cat. of London). 

 Fruit above the medium size, irregular and angular. Color pale green, tinged reddish 

 near the base. Stem long. Flesh white and deficient in juice ; subacid. Culinary apple, 

 keeping till christmas. English. 



77. FALL PIPPIN. Fig. i». 



Fruit above the medium 

 size, symmetrical, cir- 

 cular. Color yellow 

 or greenish yellow, 

 sometimes enlivened 

 with a scarlet blush 

 about the base. Stem 

 rather stout, exsert or 

 projecting beyond the 

 base ; depression ra- 

 ther large and deep. 

 Calyx large and 

 deep ; crown promi- 

 nent. Flesh yellow- 

 ish white, juicy, fine 

 flavor. Core small. 

 Sometimes keeps till 

 January, but is strictly 

 an autumn apple. It 

 is one of the finest 

 fruits for cooking, and is equally desirable for the table. 

 Succeeds well in all parts of New-York ; some of the finest specimens have grown in 



the eastern part of Rensselaer county. 



