Core wide, open, clasping the eye; Seeds large, pointed, dark; Flesh yellow, breaking, juicy; Flavor sub-acid; quality nearly first rate; Use, kitchen and table; Season September and October. =Cranberry Pippin.= This is a beautiful apple which originated near Hudson, New York. Tree vigorous, very productive. Fruit large, flat, regular; Surface very smooth, bright, clear yellow, with a shining scarlet cheek; Dots minute. Basin wide, regular or wavy; Eye small, short, closed. Cavity wide, wavy; Stem medium. Core small, oval, just meeting the eye; Axis short; Seeds numerous, long; Flesh white, breaking, juicy; Flavor mild, sub-acid; Quality very good for cooking, not for dessert; Season November to February in New York. =Dalton.= Specimens from Mr. Warren, of Massachusetts. Origin and history unknown. Fruit medium, flat, uneven; Surface smooth, yellowish-green, becoming greasy; Dots scattered, green. Basin medium, folded; Eye medium, closed. Cavity deep, pointed; Stem medium. Core medium, wide, closed, clasping the eye; Seeds large; Flesh, greenish-white, tender, juicy; Flavor sub-acid; Quality good; Use kitchen, table; Season September. Not particularly desirable. =Early Harvest.= [Illustration: Fig. 69.--EARLY HARVEST.] This American apple has long been a prime favorite in the orchard, especially when planted for family use, since it is of excellent quality for table as well as in the kitchen. For the commercial orchard, however, it is falling into disfavor with the market men, because of its uncertainty, and its proneness to be defective on some soils. Tree spreading, healthy and vigorous; the limbs are very strongly attached to the trunk by a woody enlargement at their base, and the pale olive twigs are remarkable for their peculiar mode of production in twos and threes from a common origin. Fruit medium, regular, oblate, sometimes almost round, as described by Downing, but this is rare in the West, where the oblate form prevails. Surface smooth, clear, waxy yellow, very rarely blushed; Dots numerous, minute, green. Basin regular, narrow, abrupt; Eye small, closed. Cavity wide, regular; Stem short. Core round, closed, not meeting the eye; Seeds large, pointed; Flesh tender, breaking, juicy, acid to sub-acid, agreeable; Of first quality for table or kitchen during the month of July. =Faust.= [Illustration: Fig. 70.--FAUST.] This very nice apple, received from S.W. Westbrooke, of Greensboro, N.C., deserves the commendation of its southern admirers. Fruit regular, globular-oblate, of medium size; Surface smooth, yellow, with a white bloom and sunken white dots. Basin shallow, folded; Eye small, closed. Cavity wide, green; Stem medium, to long. Core wide, closed, scarcely meeting the eye; Seeds angular; Flesh yellow, fine grained; Flavor sub-acid, aromatic, and first quality for table or dessert use, in November or later. =Finley.= ABBOTT? [Illustration: Fig. 71.--FINLEY.]