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THE APPLE. 



White Russet. 



An Irish dessert Apple. 



Fruit large, roundish oblate, yellowish russety green, intermixed 

 with white, and having a little light red on the sunny side. Stalk 

 short. Flesh firm, good. Apt to grow mealy. November. (Lindley.) 



White Spanish Reinette. 



D'Espagne. Eeinette Blanche d'Espagne. 



Fall Pippin, erroneously. Reinette d'Espagne. 



Large Fall Pippin. Camnesar. 



Cobbett's FaU Pippin. Elgin Pippin ? 



A very celebrated old Spanish variety. 



Fruit very large, roundish oblate, with broad ribs on its sides, ter- 

 minating in an uneven crown, Avhere it is nearly as broad as at the base. 

 Calyx large, open, very deeply sunk in a broad-angled, oblique, irregular 

 basin. Stalk half an inch long, set in a rather small, even cavity. Skin 

 smooth, yellowish green on the shaded side, orange, tinged with brown- 

 ish red next the sun, and sprinkled with grayish dots. Flesh yellowish 

 white, crisp, tender, rich subacid. Yery good. The tree has the same 

 wood, foliage, and vigorous habit as our Fall Pippin, and the fruit keeps 

 a month longer. This is quite distinct from Fall Pippin. 



White Spice. 

 Origin, Cumberland Co., Pa. 



Fruit large, roundish oblate. Flesh subacid, good. September. 

 (A. Pom. S. Pep.) 



White Spitzenbeeg. 



Origin, Northampton Co., Pa. Tree an annual productive bearer. 



Fruit medium, roundish oblong, yellow, interspersed with large gray 

 dots, with a blush on the exposed sides. Stalk short, in a deep, open 

 cavity. Calyx small, closed, narrow basin. Flesh breaking, sufficiently 

 juicy, subacid, agreeable aroma. Good. December to March. 



White's Red Winter. 



Southern. 



Fruit large, oblong, shaded and striped with red. Flesh rich, juicy. 

 Good keeper. (Cont. Gent.) 



White Summer Pippin. 



An early dessert Apple, described in Ronalds as of medium size, ' 

 roundish, straw color, mottled and variegated with some russet and pur- 

 ple spots. Flesh tender and delicious, if eaten off the tree in August. 



White Sweet. 



Witheriirs White Sweet. Honey Sweet of some. 



Origin, supposed New Jersey. Tree vigorous, productive. 



Fruit medium, roundish oblate conic, whitish with a blush of crim- 



