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THE APPLE. 
moderately depressed. Calyx closed. Flesh white, tender 
sprightly, with a pleasant, snb-acid flavour. The fruit is very 
light. This variety forms a handsome, rapid growing tree, with 
a flue spreading head, and bears large crops. 
Major. 
Originated with Major Samuel McMahon, Northumberland 
Co., Pennsylvania. Size large, roundish, red, sometimes blend- 
ed with yellow on the shaded side. Stem variable in length. 
Cavity rather wide, moderately deep. Basin uneven, shallow. 
Flesh yellowish, crisp. Flavour pleasant, agreeably saccharine. 
Very good. (Ad. Int. Kept.) 
Mela Carle. Thomp. Lind. 
Pomme Finale. Charles Apple. 
Mela di Carlo. Mela Carla. 
Pomme de Charles. 
The Male Carle is the most celebrated of all apples in Italy 
and the south of Europe, whence it comes. Here or in New- 
England, it does not always attain perfection, but south of New- 
York it becomes beautiful and fine, as it needs a warm and dry 
soil. Has proved good south. 
Fruit of medium size, very regularly shaped, and a little nar- 
rower towards the eye. Skin smooth, with a delicate, waxen 
appearance, pale lemon yellow in the shade, with a brilliant 
crimson cheek next the sun, the two colours often joining in 
