. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. 334 APPLES. Russet Pearmain. Size medium, roundish-conical; faint red stripes on greenish yellow ground; flesh juicy, tender, rich, fine sub-acid flavor. Through winter. Shockley. (Waddel's Hall.) Medium, roundish-oblong, narrow- ing to the eye; yellow striped and clouded with red, with dark greenish russet blotches; stalk long, slender; cavity narrow, deep; flesh firm, of good but not high flavor. Georgia. Ripens from October to March. Wm. N. White.
. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. 334 APPLES. Russet Pearmain. Size medium, roundish-conical; faint red stripes on greenish yellow ground; flesh juicy, tender, rich, fine sub-acid flavor. Through winter. Shockley. (Waddel's Hall.) Medium, roundish-oblong, narrow- ing to the eye; yellow striped and clouded with red, with dark greenish russet blotches; stalk long, slender; cavity narrow, deep; flesh firm, of good but not high flavor. Georgia. Ripens from October to March. Wm. N. White. Siloam. Medium, oblate, regular, smooth; yellow, with dull red stripes and splashes, dots numerous, small, light gray; basin shal- low, regular; eye small, closed; cavity shallow, russeted; stem very short; flesh yellow, juicy, sub-acid, rich, very good. Arkan- sas. Skrnishapfel. Medium; flat, conical, ribbed; yellow, flushed and striped with red; cavity and basin shallow and ribbed; flesh firm, sub-acid. Mid-winter. Belongs to Cross apple family, and may prove identical with the Russian Baldwin. Fig. 442. Fig. 443.—Westfield, Pig. 444. Esopus Spitzenburgh. Seek-no-Further. Wagener. Smith Cider.* Medium or rather large, roundish-oblong, some- what flattened at the ends ; shaded and slightly striped with light red on pale greenish yellow, with a few conspicuous whitish, yellow dots ; stalk slender, cavity rather deep, calyx large ; basin shallow, wrinkled; flesh whitish, tender, crisp, with a sub-acid, moderate flavor. Grown in Pennsylvania and the Ohio valley. Valued for its hardiness, productiveness, and handsome fruit. Pennsylvania. Fig. 423. Spitzenburgh, Esopus.* Rather large, roundrovate, slightly coni- cal ; surface a high rich i-ed, rather obscurely striped; stalk three-fourths of an inch long, rather slender; basin shallow, slightly furrowed; flesh yellow, firm, crisp, spicy, rather acid, nearly unequalled in its high rich flavor. Keeps through winter. Shoot
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