THE APPLE. 



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Green Cheese. 



Green Crank. Yellow Crank. Southern Greening. 



Southern Golden Pippin. Winter Greening. Carolina Greening. 



Green Skin. Winter Cheese. Turner's Cheese. 



Greening. 



An old variety, grown largely in Kentucky and other Southwestern 

 States. It has been extensively propagated by suckers, but the exact 

 place of the original tree is unknown. Although not best in quality, it 

 has so many good properties adapting it to the South and Southwest, 

 that it is widely disseminated under the various sjmonyms given above. 



Tree moderately vigorous, upright, and has the habit of blooming 

 late, which gives it a special value. A good bearer and long keeper. 

 Young shoots slender, grayish brown. 



Fruit medium, oblate, occasionally oblique, pale greenish yellow, 

 moderately sprinkled with brown dots. Stalk short, slender. Cavity 

 large, deep, russeted. Calyx closed. Segments slightly recurved. 

 Basin broad, deep, uneven. Flesh yellowish white, tender, crisp, juicy, 

 rich, sprightly subacid. Core small, compact. Yery good. Novem- 

 ber to March. 



Green's Choice. 



Origin, Chester Co., Pa. Tree vigorous and productive. 



Fruit medium, roundish conical, yellow, striped with red. Flesli 

 tender, juicy, very mild subacid, or almost sweet. Good. Bipe last of 

 August and first of September. 



Green Domine. 



Fruit medium, oblate, greenish yellow, washed or obscurely striped 

 with dull red. Flesh whitish, firm, with a pleasant, peculiar flavor. 

 Good. December, February. 



Green Mountain Pippin. 



From Georgia, and much grown there as a market fruit. 



Fruit medium, roundish, inclining to oblong, flattened at base and 

 crown, greenish yellow. Flesh white, crisp, juicy, tender, pleasant sub- 

 acid. Good. November, February. 



Green Newtown Pippin. 



Hunt's Fine Green Pippin. Newtown Pippin, American Newtown Pippin. 

 Brooke's Pippin ? Green Winter Pippin. Petersburgh Pippin. 



Hunt's Green Newtown Pippin ? 



The Newtown Pippin stands at the head of all Apples, and is, when 

 in perfection, acknowledged to be unrivalled in all the qualities which 

 constitute a high-flavored dessert apple, to which it combines the quality 

 of long keeping without the least shrivelling, retaining its high flavor to 

 the last. It commands the highest price in Covent Garden Market, Lon- 

 don. This variety is a native of Newtown, Long Island, and it requires 

 a pretty strong, deep, warm soil to attain its full perfection, and in the 

 orchard it should be well manured every two or three years. The tree 



