eisley's Winter Penick, Pelican, Red Ox, Red Pennock,
Pennock's Red Winter, and Gay's Romanite.

Origin, Pennsylvania. Tree a strong, vigorous, upright, spreading
grower, and very productive. Fruit quite large, oblique, generally flat,
but occasionally roundish oblong, fine, deep red, with faint, indistinct
streaks of yellow. Flesh yellow, tender and juicy, with a pleasant,
half-sweet flavor. Good. November to March.

KESWICK CODLIN.

A noted English cooking apple, which may be gathered for tarts as early
as the month of August, and continues in use till November. It is an
early and a great bearer and a vigorous tree, and is one of the most
profitable of orchard sorts for cooking or market. Tree very hardy,
forming a large, regular, upright, spreading, round head. Fruit a little
above the middle size, rather conical, with a few obscure ribs. Stalk
short and deeply set. Calyx rather large. Skin greenish yellow, washed
with a faint blush on one side. Flesh yellowish white, juicy, with a
pleasant acid flavor.

EMPEROR.

Described by Verry Aldrich in the _Prairie Farmer_ as follows: Fruit
medium, roundish, one-sided, orange, striped and shaded with red on the
sun side, covered with white specks. Stalk short and slender. Cavity
deep. Flesh white, fine grained, tender, juicy, pleasant, almost sweet.

EARLY MARGARET.

_Synonyms_: Margaret or Striped Juneating, Early Red Juneating, Red
Juneating, Striped June, Eve Apple of the Irish, and Margaretha Apfel of
the Germans.

An excellent early apple, ripening about the middle of July, or directly
after the Early Harvest. The tree while young is rather slender, with
reddish brown, upright, woolly shoots. It is a moderate bearer. Fruit
below medium size, roundish oblate, tapering towards the eye. Skin
greenish yellow, pretty well covered by stripes of dark red. Flesh
white, subacid, and, when freshly gathered from the tree, of a rich,
agreeable flavor. Good.

MOTHER.

_Synonyms_: Queen Anne, Gardener's Apple.

Origin, Bolton, Mass. Tree moderately vigorous, upright, and productive.
Young shoots grayish brown, downy. One of the best of apples for
dessert; rather too tender for shipment. Fruit medium. Form roundish,
slightly conical. Color yellow, almost entirely overspread with light,
clear, rich red, splashed and marbled with many deeper shades, many
minute little dots. Stalk short, small. Cavity acute, often a little
russeted. Calyx closed. Basin small, corrug