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DESCRIPTIONS 
B. Ends unequal. 
Ross’s Nonpareil. Medium size, circular. Calyx depression shallow. Stem long ; insertion 
deep, and protruding beyond the base. 
tBowYER’s Russet. Below the medium size, circular. Calyx depression small. Stem half an 
inch long; depression regular. 
Pitmaston Russet or Nonpareil. Medium size, flat. Calyx depression broad and shallow. 
Stem short; insertion shallow. 
DESCRIPTION OF AUTUMN APPLES. 
Class I. Red, or red striped upon yellow or red ground, or with brownish stripes, ornaments, etc. 
Order I. Height and breadth equal or subequal. 
A. Ends equal or subequal. 
1. WESTFIELD SEEKNOFURTHER. Fig. 8. 
Fruit of the medium size, excentric, 
rather elongated. Calyx implanted 
in a shallow depression, with a large 
funnel-form space towards the core. 
Stem rather short and thick ; depres¬ 
sion equaling the crown; base rounded. 
Color, ground yellow and striped with 
carmine, deeper on the sunny side, 
greenish russet within the stem depres¬ 
sion, dotted upon the bright side. 
Taste and flavor not very unlike a 
Spitzenberg. Ripe in October, but 
keeps till January, and is usually re¬ 
garded as a winter apple. 
2. FALL STRAWBERRY. Plate 25. 
Fruit of the medium size ; ends subequal; breadth somewhat greater than the height, 
circular, slightly compressed. Stem rather long, and set in a deep and rather wide 
regular depression. Calyx medium size and depth, closed, and surrounded by a wide 
crown. Color, bright yellow ground, striped with red, and deeper upon the sunny side ; 
crown bright yellow, and the red distributed about the base. Flesh white with a faint 
reddish tinge; juice rich, subacid. Core small. Calyx-tube closed. Ripe in October. 
Exhibited at the New-York Fruit Convention in 1848. 
