NEW WESTERN FRUITS. 
509 
For full description and use of cuts of the Eeliance and 
Northern Blush apples I am indebted to D. D. T. Moore of the 
Rural Neio Yorhei\ who says : ^ 
“I am indebted 
to G. N. Smith, 
(Berlin, Wiscon¬ 
sin,) for several 
specimens of the 
Reliance and Nor¬ 
thern Blush ap¬ 
ples, new seedling 
varieties, shown 
at one of the Wis¬ 
consin horticul¬ 
tural meetings. 
The claim mainly 
made in favor of 
* 
these seedlings is 
that of hardihood 
in the trees, they 
being the best 
two in an orchard 
originally planted 
with seedlings, 
and out of which 
more than one- 
half have died 
from the severity 
of climate, while 
these have with¬ 
stood all changes 
and yearly pro¬ 
duced fruit. 
NORTHERN BLUSH APPLE-OUTLINE. 
“The Northern 
Blush. — Fruit is 
of medium size, 
roundish oblate, 
irregular or furrowed, light, pale yellow ground, with a verniillion blush in 
sun at stem end ; stem short; cavity open, deep; calyx large for size of fruit, 
half closed: basin broad, shallow, corrugated; flesh white, coarse, spongy, 
dry, hardly good; core medium; seeds brown, plump; season December. 
