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THE APPLE. 



Fruit medium, roundish conic, red striped. Flesh tender, juicy, 

 pleasant subacid. Good. October, November. 



Fall Seek-no-Further. 

 Winter Seek-no-Further. 



Origin unknown. Tree much the habit of the Rhode Island Green- 

 ing, thrifty and productive. 



Fruit very large, oblate, yellow, mostly shaded with red, striped 

 with darker red, and covered with numerous grayish dots. Flesh whit- 

 ish, tender, moderately juicy, with a pleasant subacid flavor. Good. 

 October and November. 



There is another apple under name of Fall Seek-no-Further which 

 we have received from Iowa, of medium size, roundish, greenish, with 

 slight blush in the sun. Flesh white, tender, mild, subacid. Very 

 good and keeps till March. 



Fall Wine. 



Sweet "Wine. Sharpe's Spice. Musk Spice. 



Ohio Wine. Uncle Sam's best. Hower or House. 



Origin unknown, probably an old Eastern fruit called " Wine " or 

 " Sweet Wine," but not now much cultivated on account of the fruit being 

 defective. Ia the rich Western soils it thrives admirably, producing 

 fine fruit, yet in a few localities they complain of its being knurly. Tree 

 healthy, but of rather slender growth, bearing moderate crops annually. 



Fall Wine. 



Fruit above medium. Stem rather long, slender, in a broad, deep 

 cavity, surrounded by clear waxen yellow. Calyx partially ^ closed 

 in a broad, deep, corrugated basin. Skin striped and shaded with red, 



