_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.