. The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . of such evidence we believeit to be a genuine American apple. That it is a very fine fruit its multitude of synonyms cultivated, it has obtained local names just as it haspleased the taste of those who grew it, and whose good opin-ion of it caused its rapid dissemination. There is, perhaps,some doubt as to which name has priority, but as Mr. Kenrickwas the first to describe it, from specimens sent to the Massa-chusetts Horticultural Society by Mr. Dyer of Rhode Island,in compliment
. The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . of such evidence we believeit to be a genuine American apple. That it is a very fine fruit its multitude of synonyms cultivated, it has obtained local names just as it haspleased the taste of those who grew it, and whose good opin-ion of it caused its rapid dissemination. There is, perhaps,some doubt as to which name has priority, but as Mr. Kenrickwas the first to describe it, from specimens sent to the Massa-chusetts Horticultural Society by Mr. Dyer of Rhode Island,in compliment to him for the introduction of so fine an apple,we think his name should be retained. FEBRUARY. 71 As an early autumn apple there are few which equal it. Inthe right admixture of sweet and acid, as well as in its richspicy aroma and crisp yet tender flesh, it is almost unsurpass-able, and few who know it would consider their collectioncomplete without possessing the Dyer, (fig. 8.) Size, medium, about three inches broad and two and a halfdeep: Form, roundish, slightly depressed, largest about the. middle: Skin, fair, smooth, pale yellow, greenish about thestem, and more or less dotted and traced with thin russet,brownish on the sunny side: Stem, medium length, abouthalf an inch long, stout, and inserted in a small not very deepcavity: Eye, small, closed, and but little sunk in a smallfurrowed basin; segments of the calyx short: Flesh, yellow-ish white, fine, very crisp and tender: Juice, abundant, highflavored, with a rich spicy aroma: Core, medium size, closed:Seeds, medium size, pale. Ripe in October and November. LXX. Quince. Coxes View of Fruits. Coles Quince. Under the name of Coles Quince a variety was introducedto notice some years ago, by the late S. W. Cole. It wassaid to have been raised by Capt. Henry Cole, of Cornish, Me. 72 THE MAGAZINE OP HORTICULTURE. Whether this is so or not, we have become so well convincedthat it is nothing more than tlie Quince apple of Coxe
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