nting in flavor, and apt to be imperfect and knotty.
Young shoots dark, reddish brown. The tree blooms late, often escaping
vernal frosts. Fruit large, roundish, oblate, conical. Skin thin,
smooth, in the shade greenish or pale yellow, in the sun covered with
light and dark stripes of purplish red, marked with a few pale dots, and
a thin white bloom. Stalk three-fourths of an inch long, rather slender,
planted in a very wide, deep cavity, sometimes marked with russet. Calyx
small, closed. Basin narrow, abrupt, furrowed. Flesh white, fine
grained, tender, slightly subacid, with a peculiarly fresh and delicious
flavor. Core large and open. Very good to best. December to June.

DUCHESS OF OLDENBURG.

_Synonyms_: Smith's Beauty of Newark, Russian, Borovitsky, and New
Brunswick.

This handsome Russian apple proves one of the most hardy and profitable
varieties in cultivation, especially in our northwestern sections. The
tree is vigorous, forming a roundish, upright, spreading head, requiring
little or no pruning, and producing abundantly a fruit of fair, even and
regular size, that, although not of the first quality, always commands a
ready sale, as it is valuable for market and cooking, and passably good
for dessert. Young shoots smooth, reddish. Fruit medium size, regularly
formed, roundish oblate. Skin smooth, finely washed and streaked with
red on a golden or yellow ground. Calyx pretty large and nearly closed,
set in a wide, even hollow. There is a faint blue bloom on this fruit.
The flesh is juicy, sprightly subacid. Ripens early in September.

EARLY HARVEST.

_Synonyms_: Prince's Harvest, July Pippin, Yellow Harvest, Large White
Juneating, Tart Bough, Early French Reinette, and Sinclair's Yellow.

An American apple; and taking into account its beauty, its excellent
qualities for the dessert and cooking, and its productiveness, we think
it the finest early apple yet known. It begins to ripen about the first
of July, and continues in use all that month. The smallest collection of
apples should comprise this and the Red Astrachan. Trees moderately
vigorous, upright, spreading. Young shoots reddish brown. Fruit medium
size. Form roundish, often roundish oblate, medium size. Skin very
smooth, with a few faint white dots, bright straw color when fully ripe.
Stalk half to three-fourths of an inch long, rather slender, inserted in
a hollow of moderate depth. Calyx set in a shallow basin. Flesh very
white, tender and