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Fruit small, oblong-conic, regular; Surface smooth, pale yellow or white; Dots minute, gray, scattered.
Basin small, shallow or abrupt, narrow, regular; Eye small, closed; Segments reflexed.
Cavity deep, acute, regular, brown; Stem long, slender, green.
Core medium, pyriform, regular, open, meeting the eye; Seeds numerous, plump, pointed, brown; Flesh white, fine-grained, tender, juicy; Flavor sub-acid; Quality very good; Use, table, market; Season, July, August, after Early Harvest.
=Ortley.=
WHITE BELLFLOWER, And Many Others.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Fig. 276.--ORTLEY.]
This excellent New Jersey apple has been cultivated very satisfactorily over a great extent of our country, and is still seen in some Western collections, exhibiting all its peculiar beauty, but in many places where it was a great favorite but a few years since, it has become so defective from scab and bitter-rot that it is rapidly disappearing from the nurseries and orchards.
Tree vigorous, healthy, upright, becoming large and spreading, very productive; Shoots stout, dark, bearing limbs brittle, and often broken by the fruit.
Fruit large, oblong, conic, truncated, regular; Surface smooth, pale yellow, rarely blushed light carmine, and red spots; Dots minute, indented, white bases seen only in the unripe fruit.
Basin medium, regular, plaited; Eye small, very long, closed.
Cavity deep, acute, regular, brown; Stem long, slender.
Core medium, oval, regular, open, meeting the very long eye; Seeds numerous, short, plump, pointed, dark, easily loosened, when they rattle in the large open capsules; Flesh yellowish, tender, breaking, juicy; Flavor acid to sub-acid, sprightly, refres.h.i.+ng; Quality best; Use, table, kitchen; Season, November to January.
The threatened failure of this fine fruit is much to be regretted. Its tissue is so
=Porter.=
[Ill.u.s.tration: Fig. 277.--PORTER.]
Native of Sherburne, Ma.s.sachusetts. Tree vigorous, healthy, productive.
Fruit rather large, oblong, somewhat conic, often truncated; Surface smooth, yellow, often faintly blushed; Dots few, sunken.
Basin abrupt, folded; Eye large, closed.
Cavity acute, wavy, brown; Stem medium.
Core medium, oval, regular, closed, meeting the eye; Seeds numerous, plump; Flesh yellowish white, breaking, tender, juicy; Flavor acid to sub-acid; Quality good to very good; Use, kitchen, table, market; Season, August to October.
=Spark's.=
SPARK'S LATE.
[Ill.u.s.tration: Fig. 278.--SPARK'S.]
Fruited by Jas. H. Crain, of Undulation, Pulaski County, Illinois, on trees received from J.W. Felt & Co., Crystal Springs, Mississippi.
Special origin unknown, but believed to be southern. Tree vigorous, upright and productive; Shoots stout.
Fruit full medium to large, oblong, conic, regular, handsome; Surface greenish-yellow; Dots numerous, rather large, gray and rough.
Basin shallow, small, regular; Eye very small, closed.
Cavity deep, acute, regular, green; Stem medium to long.
Core medium, oval, closed, meeting the eye; Seeds numerous, plump; Flesh yellow, breaking, fine-grained, juicy; Flavor sub-acid, rich, very aromatic; Use, dessert especially; Season, December and January; Quality best.
CLa.s.s IV.--OBLONG APPLES.
+ORDER I.--REGULAR.+
SECTION 2.--SOUR.
SUB-SECTION 2.--STRIPED.
=Boalsburg.=
"A seedling of Center County, Pennsylvania. Large, oblong, inclining to conical, delicately mottled, and striped with red on yellow ground; Stem short, thick, inserted in a deep, ac.u.minate, russeted cavity; Basin deep, moderately wide; Flesh yellow, juicy, sprightly, refres.h.i.+ng; Very good; February."--[_Ad interim_ Reports.]
Mr. Waring, of Tyrone, Pennsylvania, writes me that the Boalsburg has not proved to be productive, and that he has discontinued its propagation.
=Cannon Pearmain.=
[Ill.u.s.tration: Fig. 279.--CANNON PEARMAIN.]
A southern apple; probably from North Carolina. Grown to some extent in parts of the West, where it proves a subst.i.tute for the Ben Davis, keeping longer.
Tree vigorous, healthy, productive when old; Fruit medium, round, oblong or ovate, regular; Surface smooth, yellow, shaded red, faintly striped; Dots large, yellow, gray.
Basin deep, abrupt, regular, rarely wavy; Eye small, closed.
Cavity acute, often lipped; Stem long, slender, red.
Core medium, regular, oval, closed, clasping; Seeds numerous, long, pointed; Flesh yellow, firm, breaking; Flavor mild sub-acid; Quality only good; Use, market, kitchen, table; Season, January to April.
=Cooper's Market.=