Elliott's fruit book; or, The Elliott's fruit book; or, The American fruit-grower's guide in orchard and garden. Being a compend of the history, modes of propagation, culture, etc., of fruit trees and shrubs, with descriptions of nearly all the varieties of fruits cultivated in this country; notes of their adaptation to localities and soils, and also a complete list of fruits worthy of cultivation elliottsfruitbo00elli Year: 1858 WORTHY GENERAL CULTIVATION. IK crisp, juicy, sweet—superior to Ramsdell's or Danvers' Sweeting ; core, medium, or rather small, compact—centre slightly hollow; seeds
Elliott's fruit book; or, The Elliott's fruit book; or, The American fruit-grower's guide in orchard and garden. Being a compend of the history, modes of propagation, culture, etc., of fruit trees and shrubs, with descriptions of nearly all the varieties of fruits cultivated in this country; notes of their adaptation to localities and soils, and also a complete list of fruits worthy of cultivation elliottsfruitbo00elli Year: 1858 WORTHY GENERAL CULTIVATION. IK crisp, juicy, sweet—superior to Ramsdell's or Danvers' Sweeting ; core, medium, or rather small, compact—centre slightly hollow; seeds, ovate, oblong, pyriform. Season, November to March. There is another Sweet Romanite grown in the Western States, which is oblong ; stem, long and slender; color, light yellow, striped with red; flesh, more yellow and dry—an inferior or unworthy variety. There is also a Sweet Nonsuch grown which is flat, with slender stem ; cavity, deep light red on pale yellow ; flesh, white, sweet, dry, and tough; inferior. Vandervere. Vandervere, of Cincinnati, Smokehouse? Gibbon's Smathhouse? Millcreek, Vandervere Pippin Red Vandervere, Fall Vandervere, Yellow Vandervere, Spiced Ox Eye, Baltimore, of some incorrectly, Gibbon's Smokehouse ? Striped Ashmore ? Millcreek Vandervere, Imperial Vanaervere, Pennsylvania Vandervere, Striped Vandervere, Staalclubs, Watson's Vandervere. American. Native of Delaware. There is much confusion rela- tive to this apple, and, while it is extensively distributed and grown, it has numerous synonyms. The variety described as 'Smoke- house,' by Dr. W. D. Brinckle, in Horticulturist, vol. 3, p. 334, we received specimens of, last winter, from Pennsylvania, and could de- tect no difference from the Vandervere when well grown. It may,
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