The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . THE LADY SWEET APPLE. Prints op AmertRa,Plate ff° J)rawri [rom Katxtre & CJiromo LitM- Ir T/^ THE LADIES SWEETING APPLE. Ladies Sweeting. Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. The Ladies Sweeting has attracted unusual at-tention among orchaidists and cultivators of fruit,and it has been pronounced by some as far thefinest winter sweet apple yet produced. It is avery beautiful looking fruit, comparing, in this re-spect, with the Baldwin, and poss
The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . THE LADY SWEET APPLE. Prints op AmertRa,Plate ff° J)rawri [rom Katxtre & CJiromo LitM- Ir T/^ THE LADIES SWEETING APPLE. Ladies Sweeting. Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. The Ladies Sweeting has attracted unusual at-tention among orchaidists and cultivators of fruit,and it has been pronounced by some as far thefinest winter sweet apple yet produced. It is avery beautiful looking fruit, comparing, in this re-spect, with the Baldwin, and possesses the excel-lent quality of keeping into April and May, withoutthe loss of juiciness and flavor, so general with mostof our sweet apples. It has not the rich sweet ofthe Broadwell, which also keeps very late, but Avhatlittle it loses in this respect is made up in its showy appearance : nei-ther is it so vigorous a growing tree as the Tolman or Danvers WinterSweet, and some others, but, taking its combined qualities, it must beconsidered a very valuable variety. The Ladies Sweeting, according to Mr. Downing, originated in thevicinky of Newburg, N. Y., and for a long time previous to his accountof it in the Fruits and Fruit Trees of Amer
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