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remarkable productiveness, coupled with early bearing habits, it has become widely 

 known. It is said to be a synonym of No. 587, English Pippin. 



The tree is difficult to manage in nursery, growing slowly and having a marked 

 predilection for producing a crooked stem and a gnarled top. In orchard, partly on 

 account of bearing very heavily, the tree assumes a more or less pendant form, which 

 makes it easily distinguished from other varieties. 



The leaves too are markedly pubescent. This variety is spoken highly of in 

 Vermont, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and has lately found favour with prominent 

 Western New York horticulturists, notably S. D. Willard, of Geneva. I am inclined 

 to think the variety grown at Geneva differs slightly in form and appearance from the 

 Western Longfield and that introduced at Abbotsford, Quebec, by the late Charles Gibb. 

 The typical Longfield is almost globular and very regular in form, whereas specimens of 

 the New York variety brought under my notice last year were more or less ribbed, and 

 the form tended towards the oblong. 



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Description .-—Fruit medium to small, round, regular ; skin, bright yellow, blushed 

 with bright pink ; cavity, almost wanting in some specimens ; stem, long, slender ; 

 basin, small, smooth ; calyx closed. Flesh, white, rather soft, melting, juicy, mild, sub- 



