The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . wards their extremities made a gentle curve upwards, as inmany specimens of the Norway fir: if to such a form you add fresh and tendex fo-liage and bark, you have every quality assigned to beauty. EVENING PARTY APPLE.* BY W. D. BRINCKLE, M. D. IZE, small. Is of an inch long, by 2f broad; Form, round-ish oblate; Skin, nearly covered with red, in stripes on awhitish-yellow ground, rich whitish-yellow at the eye, nu-/^^* ^^^V^^^^^^^ merous light russet dots; Stem, | of an inch long, by jjthick, inserted in a wide, deep cavity, occasion


The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . wards their extremities made a gentle curve upwards, as inmany specimens of the Norway fir: if to such a form you add fresh and tendex fo-liage and bark, you have every quality assigned to beauty. EVENING PARTY APPLE.* BY W. D. BRINCKLE, M. D. IZE, small. Is of an inch long, by 2f broad; Form, round-ish oblate; Skin, nearly covered with red, in stripes on awhitish-yellow ground, rich whitish-yellow at the eye, nu-/^^* ^^^V^^^^^^^ merous light russet dots; Stem, | of an inch long, by jjthick, inserted in a wide, deep cavity, occasionally russet-ed ; Calyx, small, closed, set in a moderately deep, slightlyplaited basin; Core, medium; Seed, grayish brown, short,plump, obtuse, ? of an inch long, \ wide, \ thick; Flvsli,yellowish white, tender, juicy; Flavor, pleasantly saccha-^i-^ rine and spicy; Quality, very good if not best;Maturity, January to March; Wood, young shoots reddish, old wood grey. [This apple, from its appearance no less than its qualities, is destined to become aitc] *See.


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