96 DESCRIPTIONS 



16:<. WHEELER'S RUSSET. 

 Fruit of the medium size, unsymmetrical, depressed. Color pale gray russet. Sunny side 

 a lively brown. Sk'in short, depression narrow. Flesh greenish white, rather dry ; 

 aromatic and sacchaiine. Tree hardy, hearing abundance of the best of winter russets. 

 English. 



164. WINTER RUSSET. (Hort. Trans, vol. iii. p. 454.) 

 Fruit rather large ; costal angles extending to the calyx. Color yellowish green, russetty, 

 and intermixed with white ; red on the sunny side ; stem short, flesh firm and high fla- 

 vored in its season. Irish. Early winter. 



165. JERSEY CRAB. Plate 39. 

 Is the name of a Greenbush cider apple. The tree is very vigorous, hardy and productive. 

 The apple is small, and covered with a hazy bloom. 



166. GOLDEN HARVEY. 



Fruit small, unsymmetrical, russet yellow, with a red cheek. Calyx open, rigid. Flesh 

 yellow, fine, subacid. Tree of a slender growth. 



167. OLD NONPAREIL. 



Small, excentric, yellowish green, pale russet. Stem slender, calyx small. Flesh rich, 

 acid, sharp. Early winter. English. 



168. GOLDEN RUSSET OF NEW-YORK. 

 Fruit of the medium size, slightly elongated ; symmetrical ; russeting thick sometimes, 

 then showing the greenish yellow skin. Stem slender. Flesh fine grained, firm, crisp, 

 aromatic. Keeps till spring. 



169. ROXBURY RUSSET. 



Boston Russet. 



Fruit of the medium size, symmetrical, subcircular, ends subequal. Color dull green, be- 

 coming in ripening brownish yellow russet, enlivened with a faint blush on the sunny 

 side. Stem exsert, slender ; basin circular. Flesh greenish white, subacid, moderately 

 juicy, with a rich flavor. Keeps till June. 



The Putnam Russet of Ohio, has been proved after considerable research to be the iden- 

 tical Roxbury Russet, altered somewhat by climate and the rich soil of the western valleys. 



