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FRUITS. 



Doctor apple. — It is a large and handsome fruit, high- 

 ly esteemed; ripens in October, and keeps for some 

 months. 



Bell-flower. — This apple we can decidedly recommend, 

 from twenty years' trial. It is a great bearer — beautiful 

 bright yellow : it is fit for cooking and for the table ; ripens 

 in November, and will keep till March. Its skin is so 

 tender, that it must be gathered with great care, and put 

 up with equal tenderness. It is the most popular apple in 

 Philadelphia, and w^ould be so here, if its merits, and its 

 careful management in putting it up, were generally known. 

 It is a vigorous and healthy tree. 



Rihstone pippin. — This is a celebrated English apple, of 

 fine flavour, and some beauty. It will keep from November 

 to February. It has the pippin texture, is rather a shy 

 bearer, and ought not to be cultivated extensively : but one 

 or two trees would reward the cultivator. 



The two Spitzenhergs — the Newton and Esopus. — These 

 . are American fruits, of the very finest quality, keeping 

 sound, and retaining their flavour till May, from December. 

 They bear every year^ though, like all others of this class, 

 they have tlieir full and their scanty years of bearing. It 

 is however admitted, that they are declining, not in good- 

 ness, but in fertility. On new lands they may do well for 

 fifty years more. 



The Baldwin apple^ formerly called the Pecker apple. — 

 This is probably a Massachusetts production, originating in 

 the county of Middlesex. It is now in its prime ; a 

 healthy tree; an enormous bearer; bearing every other 

 year, and in the interm^ediate one not producing an apple ; 

 for beauty, richness, and other fine qualities, not yielding 

 to any apple in the world, except the American apple called 

 the Newtown pippin. It is in eating from December to 

 the first of April. 



The Newtown pippin. — This is a New Jersey production ; 

 the finest apple in our country. It flourishes vAih us, but 

 its fruit is not so fine as those grown in New Jersey. In 

 some situations it however succeeds almost as well as in 

 New Jersey, and is well worthy of a place in every garden, 

 as its fruit will keep till May. 



The Roxbury russeting. — This is a standard natural fruit 

 of Massachusetts. Every other year it is a great bearer. 

 Its fruit is pleasant for the table from January to July, 

 if kept in a cold place. We add nothing further in favo^ 

 of the Roxbury russeting, because its great merits for our 



