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FAMEUSE.—Medium size, deep crimson, flesh snowy white, tender and delicious. Tree 
vigorous, with dark wood; a beautiful and fine fruit; succeeds particularly well in 
the north. Novy. to Jan. 
GREEN SWEETING.—Medium size, greenish, tender, sweet and spicy; one of the very 
best long keeping sweet apples. Tree a moderate, erect grower. Noy. to May. 
HEWE’S VIRGINIA CRAB.—Highly esteemed in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, and other 
southern states for cider. 
HUBBARDSTON NONSUCH.—Large, striped, yellow and red, tender, juicy and fine ; 
strong grower and great bearer. Native of Massachusetts. Nov. to Jan. 
JONATHAN.—Medium size, striped red and yellow, flesh tender, juicy and rich, with 
much of the Spitzenberg character, shoots light colored, slender and spreading; very 
productive; a native of Kingston, N. Y. Novy. to April. 
KING (or Tompkins Co.)—A superb red apple, of the largest size and finest quality. Tree 
a good grower and bearer, hardy. Novy. to March. 
LYMAN’S PUMPKIN SWEET, (Pound Sweet).—A very large, round, greenish apple, 
excellent for baking. Tree one of the most vigorous and productive. Oct. to Dee. 
LADY APPLE, POMME D’ API.—A beautiful little dessert fruit, flat, pale yellow, with 
a brilliant red cheek; flesh crisp, juicy and pleasant. The tree forms a dense, erect 
head, and bears large crops of fruit in clusters; the fruit sells for the highest price in — 
New York, London and Paris. Nov. to May. There are four or five varieties of 
these described by authors, but this is the best. / 
LADIES’ SWEET.—Large, roundish, green and red, nearly quite red in the sun; sweet, 
sprightly and perfumed, shoots slender, but erect; a good bearer. Orignated in 
Newburg, N. Y.; one of the best winter sweet apples. Nov. to May. 
MONMOUTH PIPPIN, (Red Cheek Pippin. )—Large, greenish yellow, with a fine, red cheek» 
juicy, tender and good. Tree erect, vigorous and productive. Keeps well till March 
or April. 
MINISTER.—Large, oblong, striped greenish yellow and red; 2d quality. Tree vigor- 
ous and a great bearer. Nov. to Jan. 
MOTHER.—Large, red, flesh very tender, rich and aromatic. Tree a good bearer, suc- 
ceeds well in the north; supposed to have originated in Worcester county, Mass. 
Noy. to Jan. 
MELON, (Norrton’s.)—Large, pale, whitish yellow and vermillion red; flesh tender, juicy, 
almost melting and spicy. A most beautiful and delicious fruit; originated in East 
Bloomfield, N. Y. The tree is rather a slow-grower, but a good bearer; retains its 
freshness from October to April. 
NORTHERN SPY.—Large, striped, and quite covered on the sunny side with dark crim- 
son, and delicately coated with bloom. Flesh juicy, rich, highly aromatic, retaining 
its freshness of flavor and appearance till July. The tree is a remarkably rapid, 
erect grower, and a great bearer; like all trees of the same habit, it requires good 
culture, and an occasional thinning out of the branches, to admit the sun and air fully 
to the fruit. Both leaf and blossom buds open a week later than most other varieties. 
NEWTON PIPPIN.—One of the most celebrated of American apples, on account of its 
long keeping and excellent qualities, and the high price it commands abroad ; but its 
success is confined to certain districts and soils. It attains its greatest perfection on 
Long Island and on the Hudson. In Western New York and New England it rarely 
succeeds well. It requires rich and high culture. Tree a slow, feeble grower, with 
rough bark. Noy. to June. 
ORTLEY, (White Detroit, White Bellflower, Warren Pippin, Jersey Greening, Woolman’s 
Long, &c.)—A large, oblong apple, of the first quality; succeeds poorly here, but 
well in the west. Tree erect, vigorous and productive, Dec. to March. 
PECK’S PLEASANT.—Large, pale yellow, with a brown cheek, very smocth and fair ; 
flesh firm and rich, approaching the flavor of a Newton Pippin. Tree erect and a 
good bearer. Noy. to April. 
PRYOR’S RED.—Large, russety, red; excellent quality; valuable in Kentucky and 
south west. Dec. to April. 
