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A. B. Hood 6 Co.’s Descriptive Catalogue 
Buckingham, or Winter Queen. 
AUTUMN APPLES, continued 
Bonum. Medium oblate ; color liglil to 
dark red ; flesh yellow, firm, breaking 
fine-grained ; flavor ricli subacid ; first 
iluality for dessert. A most excellent 
Apple ; originated in North Carolina ; de- 
serves more general attention. Septem- 
ber to December. 
Buckingham, or Winter Queen. Large to 
very large, greenish yellow, mixed and 
striped with crimson or purpli.sh red ; 
flesh yellowish, breaking tender, juicy, 
mild, sprightly, subacid. A hand.some, 
healthy tree ; comes into bearing very 
pirly. and very productive. This Apple 
is cultivated over a great portion of the 
southern and western states, and is 
everywhere very profitable and popular, 
succeeding in almost every locality. W’e 
consider it one of the most valuable sorts. 
October to January. 
Fall Pippin. V'ery large, roundish ob- 
long ; yellow, rich and excellent. 'Free 
vigorous and a fine 'bearer. E.steemed 
everywhere ; in the valley of Virginia it 
is very popular as an early winter .Apple. 
Septetnber to December. 
Fall Cheese. Virginia Apple ; very 
popular. Size large ; green, beautiftdly 
striped with red ; flesh white, subacid 
flavor, and rich aroma. 'Free a vigorous 
grower and very productive. .September 
to December. 
Fallawater. Large, greenish yellow, 
with dull red cheek, slightly conical ; 
juicy, subacid. X’igorous grower and 
very productive. Worthy of general cul- 
tivation. November to February. 
Rebel. We unhesitatingly claim this to 
be the prettiest Apple that grows, and in 
(|uality it does not fall a particle below its 
beauty. Large size, round, bright, clear 
red on yellow ground cot ered with a fine 
bloom ; flesh yellowish white ; rich, with 
an agreeable mingling of the .saccharine 
and acid. Origin, Rappahannock county, 
X’irginia. October to February. 
Smith's Cider. Rather large ; greeni.sh 
white, striped with red ; flesh tender, 
juicy, with a mild, subacid flavor ; a pro- 
digious betirer :md profitable market va- 
riety. October to February. 
Smokehouse. Fruit large, oblate, striped 
\vith red on yellow ground ; flesh yellow- 
ish white, firm, juicy, crisp and rich, with 
a fine, aromatic, stibacid flavor ; unsur- 
passed for culinary purposes ; productive. 
September to December. 
Wine Apple. (Fnglish Redstreak, Hays' 
Winter. ) A valuable late autumn or early 
winter Apjtle ; fruit large, skin yellow, 
tnore or less covered with mixwl and 
broken stripes of red, splashed with crim- 
son ; flesh yellowish, firm, juicy ; flavor 
acid to subacid, rich ; (juality good. Oc- 
tober to December. 
" I consider yonr nursery stock far superior to any I have houglit or seen sent out to this country. I 
have tried other nutseries, but none xive the satisfaction tfiat I have received from your trees, and now 
I will buy from no other."— Rev. Ja.mes Hughs. Mero, Va., /?, 11)04. 
