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Title: The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year ..
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Thomas, J. J. (John Jacob)
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture Almanacs, American
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : Luther Tucker
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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l; bright yellow; fleshtender, with a rich, rather acid flavor. Fair, productive, and valuable.Succeeds throughout the northern and western States. Gravenstein. Rather large, roundish j striped with bright red; fleshjuicy, with a very rich, ratber acid flavor. Tree productive, a fine grower,fonning a round head; fruit handsome and excellent. This German applehas proved fine in the northen, middle, western, and in some of the sou-thern states. Leland Spice. Rather large, roundish, red; flesh yellowish white,sub-acid, spicy, rich, of fine flavor. A Massachusetts variety; not muchproved elsewhere. Fall Orange. Large, roundish oval; pale yellow; flesh sub-acid, andexcellent if fresh and ripe from the tree. Tree a strong grower; fruitalways fair; tree bears when young. Not widely known. Dyer, or Pomme Royale. Above medium in size; roundish, a littleoblong; ribbed toward the blossom end; skin light yellow, with some-times a russet network; flesh very fine grained, juicy, with a rich, rather
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SRAVZNSTEIN. acid flavor, rarely equalled. Tree of slender growth, and a moderatebearer. Ripens through autumn. Fine in New-England and New-York.Bears when young, Smokehol^se. Rather large, flattish; color a light dull redj flesh rich,aromatic, sub-acid, of fine flavor. Growth, crooked and spreading. Suc-ceeds well in New-York and in the middle and western States. Fameuse. Medium in size,- round, sometimes flattened; whole surfaceoften a fine deep red; flesh very white, (whence its other name, Pommede Neige, or Snow-apple,) sub-acid, juicy, a little spicy, very pleasant andagreeable, but not very rich. Fall Pippin, called erroneously Holland Pippin, the latter namebelonging to a very different apple. Very large; (we have seen it twenty-three ounces;) roundish, sometimes a little conical; skin rich golden yel-low when ripe; flesh yellowish, rather firm and hard, becoming tenderwhen fully mature, with a rich, aromatic and excellent flavor. A mod-erate bearer. Admirable for stewing. Exce

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