ROME BEAUTY.--_Synonyms_--Roman Beauty, Gillett's Seedling. [Illustration] Fruit large, yellow, ground shaded, and striped with red, and sprinkled with little dots. Flesh yellowish, juicy, tender, subacid. Bears every year a great crop of very large showy apples. It is not superior in flesh or flavor, but keeps and sells very well. Always must be very profitable, and hence very popular. AUTUMN SWEET BOUGH.--_Synonyms_--Late Bough, Fall Bough, Summer Bell Flower, Philadelphia Sweet. Tree very vigorous and productive. Fruit medium. Skin smooth, pale yellow with a few brown dots. Flesh white, tender, sweet vinous flavor. One of the best dessert sweet apples. August and October. WESTFIELD SEEK-NO-FURTHER.--_Synonyms_--Seek-no-further, Red Winter Pearmain, Connecticut Seek-no-further. [Illustration] Fruit large, pale dull red, sprinkled with obscure russety yellow dots. Flesh white, tender and fine-grained. On all accounts good. October to February according to Downing. Elliott says from December to February. But the doctors often disagree. So you had better eat your apples when they are good, whether it be October or December, or according to Downing, Elliott, or Hooper. RIBSTON PIPPIN.--_Synonyms_--Glory of York, Travers', Formosa Pippin, Rock hill's Russet. This occupies as high a place in England, as any other apple. In this country, two or three others, as Baldwin and Newtown Pippin, are more highly esteemed. This is most successfully grown in the colder parts of the United States and Canada. Fruit medium, deep yellow, firm, crisp; flavor sharp aromatic. November to April. NORTHERN SPY.--This is a new American variety, with no synonyms. It originated near Rochester, N. Y. [Illustration] There is not a better dessert apple known. It retains its exceedingly pleasant juiciness, and excellent flavor from January to June. In western New York, they have been carried to the harvest field, in July in excellent condition. A fair bearer of beautiful fruit. Subacid with a peculiar freshness of flavor. Dark stripes of purplish red in the sun, but a greenish pale yellow in the shade. High culture and an open top for admission of the sun, affects the fruit more favorably than any other. ROXBURY RUSSET.--_Synonyms_--Boston Russet, Putnam Russet. [Illustration] An excellent fruit, and prodigious bearer. Medium size, flesh greenish white, rather juicy, and subacid. Good in January, and one of the best in market in June. There are other russets of larger size, but much inferior. This should be in every collection. It is not first in richness and flavor, but it is superior to most in productiveness, and is one of the best keepers. LARGE YELLOW BOUGH.--_Synonyms_--Early Sweet Bough, Sweet Harvest, Bough.