. The American fruit culturist. ty. Medium, roundish, regular; striped and shadedred on yellow; cavity deep; calyx small; basin deep, smooth ;flesh crisp, tender, with a very good mild sub-acid flavor. Lateautumn. Tree vigorous, productive. Jefferson County, N. Y. Jefferis. Medium or rather large, round oblate; yellow, red, anddeep red, striped ; stalk very short, slender; cavity and basin APPLES. 311 deep ; flesh yellowish white, remarkably tender and juicy ; flavorvery pleasant. Ripens first of autumn. Fig. 390. Origin, West-Chester, Pa. Hardy far north. Jewetts Red. (Jewetts Fine Red, Nodhe
. The American fruit culturist. ty. Medium, roundish, regular; striped and shadedred on yellow; cavity deep; calyx small; basin deep, smooth ;flesh crisp, tender, with a very good mild sub-acid flavor. Lateautumn. Tree vigorous, productive. Jefferson County, N. Y. Jefferis. Medium or rather large, round oblate; yellow, red, anddeep red, striped ; stalk very short, slender; cavity and basin APPLES. 311 deep ; flesh yellowish white, remarkably tender and juicy ; flavorvery pleasant. Ripens first of autumn. Fig. 390. Origin, West-Chester, Pa. Hardy far north. Jewetts Red. (Jewetts Fine Red, Nodhead.) Medium or ratherlarge, roundish, slightly oblate; striped red on yellow or slightlygreenish yellow ground, with conspicuous white dots; stemnearly an inch long; cavity acuminate; basin rather shallow;flesh remarkably tender, fine grained, mild sub-acid, slightlyaromatic. Mid-autumn into winter. Cultivated in the northernparts of New England. Hardy at the West. New Hampshire. Fig. 386—Late Strawberry. FiG. 3S8.— Oldenburg. FiG. 385.—Twenty Ounce. FiG. 389.—Melon. Kane. (Cane, Cain.) Size medium, roundish-oblate, often ob-scurely conical, regular; surface fair and beautiful, highly pol-ished, indistinctly striped with brilliant light crimson, graduallymerging into delicate blush color on the shaded part; stalk oftenvery short; cavity acute, narrow; basin regular; flesh yellow-ish white, with a pleasant, good flavor. Hardly of the highestquality, but much admired for its beauty. Late autumn. Anative of Kent County, Delaware. Late Strawberry.* (Strawberry, Autumn Strawberry.) Size me-dium ; roundish, slightly conical, sometimes faintly ribbed;nearly whole surface with small broken streaks of light and darkred ; stalk slender, about an inch long; basin ribbed ; flesh yel-lowish white, slightly fibrous, very tender and juicy, with a fine,very agreeable, sub-acid flavor. Young trees of remarkablythrifty growth, leaves sharply serrate, which at once distin-guishes
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