The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . low color, slightly spotted with roseon the sunny side, speckled with white dots upon the surface. No. 10. ASTRACAN, OR EVERGREEN ApPLE CrAB.— Fruit, two-thirds of an inch high, and three-fourths of an inch broad; form, oblate, compressed, irregular; stalk, short, one-third of an inch long, obliquely inserted in a shal- No. 12. low cavity, crowded on one side by a lip; eye, broad, formed by several small wrinkles out the surface; segments, long; color, deep green, speckled with white dots. The leaves are evergreen, and remains on th
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . low color, slightly spotted with roseon the sunny side, speckled with white dots upon the surface. No. 10. ASTRACAN, OR EVERGREEN ApPLE CrAB.— Fruit, two-thirds of an inch high, and three-fourths of an inch broad; form, oblate, compressed, irregular; stalk, short, one-third of an inch long, obliquely inserted in a shal- No. 12. low cavity, crowded on one side by a lip; eye, broad, formed by several small wrinkles out the surface; segments, long; color, deep green, speckled with white dots. The leaves are evergreen, and remains on the tree during the winter. No. 11. The Double Flowering Crab.—Fruit, two-thirds of an inch high, and three-fourths of an inch in diameter; form, roundish, but very irregular; stalk, one inch long,lajger at the two extremities; eye, very large, out the surface, formed with five smallwrinkles united together, and terminated in a bundle by the segments of the calyx; color,rose violaceous on the sunny side, ashy green on the shaded side, covered with a white.
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