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TUB APPLE. 
Fruit large, roundish. Skin yellowish green. Flesh tender, 
juicy, suk-acid, excellent for culinary purposes. September to 
October. 
Hill’s Favourite. 
Origin, Leominster, Mass. A thrifty grower, and very pro- 
ductive. 
Fruit about medium, roundish, slightly conic, angular. Skin 
yellow, mostly shaded, and striped with red, covered with thin 
bloom and numerous whitish dots. Stalk short, cavity medium, 
uneven. Calyx closed, basin small, shallow. Flesh yellow, com- 
pact, tender, juicy, with a pleasant, slightly sub-acid, aromatic fla- 
vour. Middle of September, and in use for a month. 
Hog Island Sweet. 
Sweet Pippin. 
Origin, Hog Island, adjoining Long Island. Tree vigorous 
and productive. Valuable for family use and stock feeding. 
Fruit of medium size, oblate. Skin yellow, striped with red, 
with a bright crimson cheek. Stem rather short, slender, 
inserted in a deep abrupt cavity. Calyx closed, set in a broad 
basin of moderate depth. Flesh yellow, juicy, crisp, tender, 
slightly aromatic, with a very sweet, rich, excellent flavour. 
September, October. 
< Hollady’s Seedling. 
Raised by John Hollady, Spottsyl vania county, Va. A very 
thrifty, upright grower, a good bearer. 
Fruit medium, oblate. Colour yellow, with a faint blush, and 
sprinkled with grey dots. Flesh yellowish, compact, tender, 
rich, aromatic. November to March. (H. R. Roby.) 
Holland Pippin. Thomp. Lind. Miller. 
Reinnette d’Hollande. Noisette ? 
p" iPPin ' \ of ^Jersey. 
This and the Fall Pippin are frequently confounded together. 
They are indeed of the same origin, and the leaves, wood, and 
strong growth of both are very closely similar. One of the 
strongest points of difference, however, lies in their time of ripen- 
ing. This being with us a late summer, the Fall Pippin a late 
autumn, and the White Spanish Reinnette an early winter 
fruit. 
The Holland Pippin, in the gardens here, begins to fall from 
the tree, and is fit for pies about the middle of August, and from 
that time to the first of November, is one of the very best kitchen 
