Section 2.--Sour.

SUB-SECTION 2.--STRIPED.

=Clyde Beauty.=

"Origin, Wayne County, New York. Tree vigorous, upright, very productive.

"Fruit large, roundish, conic, angular; Skin greenish, oily, sprinkled and mottled with dull red, and bright red in the sun; Stem short, slender, inserted in an acute cavity; Calyx closed, set in a small corrugated basin; Flesh white, tender, juicy with a brisk sub-acid flavor; October to January."--[Downing.]

=Frank or Chenango.=

CHENANGO STRAWBERRY.

This beautiful apple has been called also the Late Strawberry. So, to avoid confusion, perhaps, it were better to adopt its local name Frank. It is a native of New York.

Fruit medium to large oblong, tapering, irregular; Surface smooth, beautifully striped on waxen yellow.

Basin folded and plaited, abrupt; Eye medium, closed.

Cavity acuminate; Stem medium.

Flesh tender, juicy; Flavor sub-acid, aromatic; Quality very good; Use, dessert; Season, autumn.

=Minister.=

This New England apple was introduced by Mr. Manning; when he brought it before the American Pomological Society, it met with so much favor from the members of that body that it was adopted and recommended. In the Western States it has failed to give satisfaction and is generally discarded, but further North it may do as well as in New England. In Ohio it becomes an autumn apple, and is only used for cooking, when we have plenty of others that are preferred.

Tree healthy, vigorous, early bearer, and constantly productive.

Fruit full medium to large, oblong, tapering to the eye, ribbed, irregular; Surface smooth, yellow, covered bright red mixed, splashed carmine, often handsome; Dots minute.

Basin very narrow, folded, plaited; Eye small, closed.

Cavity deep, acute, sometimes brown; Stem long, slender.

Flesh yellowish, breaking, juicy; Flavor acid; Quality only good; Use, kitchen; Season, September and later; not a winter fruit in latitude forty.

=Striped Gilliflower.=

Fruit quite large, oblong, conical, truncated, ribbed; Surface smooth, yellowish white, mixed red, splashed carmine; Dots rare, gray.

Basin abrupt, folded; Eye large, closed.

Cavity wide, wavy, brown; Stem short, curved.

Core large, round, very open, meeting the eye; Seeds small, plump, black; Flesh yellowish white, breaking; Flavor sub-acid; Quality scarcely good; Use, market only; Season, September.

Less ribbed than the Scalloped Gilliflower.

=Toccoa.=

"From Toccoa Falls, Habersham County, Georgia.

"Fruit rather large, conical, irregular or oblong; Skin whitish yellow, considerably shaded with carmine, and sprinkled with a few brown dots; Stem short, inserted in a deep cavity; Calyx partially closed, set in a rather large basin; Flesh whitish, juicy, tender, pleasant, mild sub-acid; November to February."--[Downing.]

Perhaps not an early bearer; my trees, set six years, have not yet fruited.

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CLASS IV.--OBLONG APPLES.

+ORDER II.--IRREGULAR.+