. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. t to many whom weknow to be still ignorant of their merits. There is a large class of very fine fruitswhich have only a local value. They be-long to a certain small district where theyhave originated, where their qualities attainthe highest perfection, and beyond whichthey deteriorate. Among such, must benumbered those surpassingly fine fruits, theNewtown Pippin and the Esopus Spitzen- NOTES ON SUPERIOR FRUITS. 11 burgh. Here, where their local origin pla-ced and confines them, they are truly unri-valled. Abroad, in New-England, at
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. t to many whom weknow to be still ignorant of their merits. There is a large class of very fine fruitswhich have only a local value. They be-long to a certain small district where theyhave originated, where their qualities attainthe highest perfection, and beyond whichthey deteriorate. Among such, must benumbered those surpassingly fine fruits, theNewtown Pippin and the Esopus Spitzen- NOTES ON SUPERIOR FRUITS. 11 burgh. Here, where their local origin pla-ced and confines them, they are truly unri-valled. Abroad, in New-England, at thesouth, and even at the west, they are scarce-ly the same fruits. On the other hand, there is a small classof fruits which seem to have a capacity ofadaptation that fits them for soils and ex-posures of almost every character. Hardy,uniformly productive, and thriving in al-most every tolerable soil, they becomesources of profit to the orchardist, and ofcontinual enjoyment to the possessor ofsmall gardens. To this class belong thefoilowino- sorts of Fig. 1. The Imperial Ottoman Plum. Plums. Imperial Ottobian.—This va-luable fruit is comparatively little is named, but not described, in the Cata-logue of the London Horticultural believe it was imported from Europemany years ago by the late proprietor of theLinnean Garden at Flushing. The Imperial Ottoman has qualities whichwill soon make it a very popular plum. Inthe first place, it is among the earliest sorts,ripening only two or three days after theMorocco. Secondly, it is reviarkably juicy,sweet and excellent; the flesh of very melt-ing texture. Thirdly, it is a most abund-ant and very regular bearer; the fruit hang-ing in the richest clusters. And lastly, itis a very hardy tree—suiting itself to al-most any climate, Avhere the plum willthrive.* The Imperial Ottoman is a fruit of me-dium size, oval, and regulary formed. Theskin is of a pale, semi-pellucid greenishyellow, a good deal marbled. I
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