APPLES. 
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APPLES. 
[In arranging the apples, we have thought best to reject the 
classes according to the season, and adopt the principle of the 
system recommended by the late A. J. Downing ; but instead 
of using the terms “best,” “very good,” and “good,” we have 
designated the qualities as first, second, and third, answering to 
the above.] 
CLASS I. 
This section comprises those that are w T ell known, of excellent 
quality, and good habit generally. 
American Summer Pearmain. Thomp. 
Early Summer Pearmain. Coxe. 
A rich, highly-flavoured fruit, much esteemed in New Jersey, 
where it is most known. It appears to be quite different from 
the Summer Pearmain (of the English), and is probably a seed- 
ling raised from it. It ripens gradually from the tenth of Au 
gust to the last of September. 
Fruit of medium size, oblong, widest at the crown, and taper- 
ing slightly to the eye. Skin, red spotted with yellow in the 
shade, but streaked with livelier red and yellow on the sunny 
side. Stalk three fourths of an inch long, and pretty deeply 
inserted. Eye deeply sunk. Flesh yellow, remarkably tender, 
with a rich and pleasant flavour, and often bursts in falling from 
the tree. This is a valuable apple for all purposes, and it thrives 
admirably on sandy soils. In the nursery the tree grows slowly.. 
Autumn Sweet Bough. 
Late Bough. Sweet Bellflower. 
Pall Bough. Philadelphia Sweet. 
Origin unknown. Tree, vigorous, upright, very productive. 
One of the very best dessert sweet apples of its season. Fruit, 
medium, conical, angular. Skin, smooth, pale yellow, sprinkled 
with a few brown dots. Stalk of medium length, rather slender, 
inserted in a deep narrow cavity; calyx closed; segments long; 
basin deep, corrugated ; flesh white, very tender, with a sweet, 
refreshing, vinous flavour. Last of August to first of October. 
Baldwin. Ken. Thomp. Man. 
Woodpecker. Pecker. Steel’s Bed Winter. 
The Baldwin stands at the head of all New England apples, 
and is unquestionably a first-rate fruit in all respects. It is a 
