The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . kitchen ; season, September, October, and later. No. 4 Coral. — Named from the village near which it was produced;equally applicable to its color. Fruit globular to oblong, regular, of goodsize; surface smooth, yellow, bluslied scarlet;, dots nurrverous, gray or Hardy Apples. — Siberians. 2C9 fawn ; basin shallow or none ; eye small, closed ; calyx reflexed ; cavitymedium, wide, regular; stem long, slender ; core oval, closed ; seeds few,plump, dark ; flesh yellow, breaking, juicy ; flavor rich, sub-acid. Use,dessert and kitchen ;
The American journal of horticulture and florist's companion . kitchen ; season, September, October, and later. No. 4 Coral. — Named from the village near which it was produced;equally applicable to its color. Fruit globular to oblong, regular, of goodsize; surface smooth, yellow, bluslied scarlet;, dots nurrverous, gray or Hardy Apples. — Siberians. 2C9 fawn ; basin shallow or none ; eye small, closed ; calyx reflexed ; cavitymedium, wide, regular; stem long, slender ; core oval, closed ; seeds few,plump, dark ; flesh yellow, breaking, juicy ; flavor rich, sub-acid. Use,dessert and kitchen ; quality good (pronounced to be the richest crab yetknown ); season, all winter, and till February. This variety, like theChicago, has been over-fruited for some years; and the apples are under-size this season, as represented in the cut. Lady Crab (syn., Fyrus baccata fruda ?tigra). — From A. M. Lawver,South Pass, 111.; an imported variety. Is presented here, not as a Siberian,but rather as a contrast to that class of apples, and as a sample of another. Chicago, No. 2. Coral, No. 4. species, or a sub-species, of the Pyrus nialiis, — that from which our commonapples are derived. Mr. Lawver thinks this cannot belong to the Siberianfamily. It resembles the Lady Apple in form, and manner of bearing itsfruit in clusters. Tree more spreading ; bears early and profusely: a treein my garden, three years planted, bore a half-bushel this season. Thereis no resemblance in tree to the Siberians. Fruit small, oblate, regular; surface smooth, shining, deep red ; dotsscattered, fawn ; basin wide, shallow, regular; eye small, closed ; cavityregular; stem long ; core medium, closed ; seeds few, large, angular; fleshwhitish, soft, juicy; flavor mild, sub-acid. Use, table and ornamental;quality good ; season, September and October south of latitude 40°. VOL. V. 27 J. A. Warder. 2IO Chapter on Greenhouses. CHAPTER ON GREENHOUSES. —No. IV. For the illustrations of this number, I give the
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