OF WINTER APPLES. 
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10. MINISTER. 
Fruit large, fair, unsymmetrical, ribbed; base wide and tapering to a narrow apex. The 
ground color, yellowish green; ornamental color, carmine pencilled in stripes. Stem 
long, slender, inserted in a wide shallow irregular depression. Flesh yellowish white, 
subacid, moderately rich. Tree productive. 
11. SWEET PE ARM AIN. (English Sweeting of Rhode-Island.) 
Fruit of the medium size. Color dark, rich crimson, and marked with rough dots. Stem 
slender, inserted in a wide depression ; basin small ; taste sweet. 
12. BLACK G1LLIFLOWER. Plate 24. Fig. 8). 
Fruit of the medium size, elongated ; sub- 
angular ; conical; symmetrical. Color 
dark crimson, and dull, obscurely stri¬ 
ped; stem exsert, depression very nar¬ 
row, calyx small; depression shallow, 
plaited, almost truncate. Flesh greenish 
white, subacid, rich ; over ripe, very 
mealy and dry. 
This apple, though less esteemed than 
formerly, yet being a distinct variety and 
adapted to the taste of many, should find 
a place in every orchard. 
