. Fruits and fruit-trees of nch long, curved, thickest at the bottom. Flesh yellow, fine-grained,tender, crisp, with an abundance of rich, slightly aromatic, lively, acidjuice. Yery good. November to February. Rhodes Orange. Eaised by Col. Mercer Rhodes, Newton Co., Ga. Tree a slowgrower, spreading, productive. Fruit medium, roundish oblate, yellowish, washed, striped, and mot-tled with light red, many light and gray dots. Stalk rather long. Calyxsmall, closed. Flesh whitish, tender, juicy, pleasant subacid. small. August. RiBSTON of York. Travers. Formosa Pip
. Fruits and fruit-trees of nch long, curved, thickest at the bottom. Flesh yellow, fine-grained,tender, crisp, with an abundance of rich, slightly aromatic, lively, acidjuice. Yery good. November to February. Rhodes Orange. Eaised by Col. Mercer Rhodes, Newton Co., Ga. Tree a slowgrower, spreading, productive. Fruit medium, roundish oblate, yellowish, washed, striped, and mot-tled with light red, many light and gray dots. Stalk rather long. Calyxsmall, closed. Flesh whitish, tender, juicy, pleasant subacid. small. August. RiBSTON of York. Travers. Formosa Pippin. Eockhills Eusset The Ribston Pippin, a Yorkshire Apple, stands as high in GreatBritain as the Bank of England, and to say that an Apple has a Ribston 334 THE APPLE. flavor is there the highest praise that can be bestowed. But it isscarcely so much esteemed here, and must be content to give place withus to the Newtown Pippin, the Swaar, the Spitzenburgh, or the Maine, and parts of Canada, it is very fine and Eibston Pippin. Fruit of medium size, roundish, greenish yellow, mixed with a littlerusset near the stalk, and clouded with dull red on the sunny short, slender, planted in a rather wide cavity. Calyx small,closed, and set in an angular basin. Flesh deep yellow, firm, crisp, witha sharp, rich, aromatic flavor. Yery good. The tree forms a spreadingtop. November to April. Eichards Graft. Derricks Graft. Red Spitzenburgh. Derrikinan. Strawberry. Wine. Dircks G-raft. Uncle Richards Graft. Originated at Greenport, Columbia Co., N. Y. An excellent fallApple, worthy of extended cultivation. Tree a free, upright spreadinggrower, productive. Young shoots very dark reddish brown, downy. Fruit medium, roundish oblafce. Color yellow, nearly covered withsplashes, marblings, and shades of rich red. Stalk medium lengiih, slen-der. Cavity large. Calyx small, closed. Segments sometimes recurv-ed. Basin medium, slightly uneven. Flesh yellowish, tender,
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