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vigorous and productive — all characters thus marking ]+• as a 

 promising variety for New York fruit-growers. 



PEAR. 



Why the Lucy Duke pear has been so neglected 

 Lucy Duke. is hard to see, for Thomas Meehan said of it 

 twenty-five years ago, " It is the finest large pear 

 in cultivation ", and Charles Downing thought it " Not quite so 

 fine as a first-class Seckel, but I must aver it is not far behind." Its 

 rich, juicy, spicy, melting flesh makes it of the very finest quality. 

 In form, it resembles Bartlett, one parent, is of medium size and of a 

 beautiful golden russet color, which makes it extremely handsome. 

 It can be unqualifiedly recommended for local and fancy markets 

 and its rather thick skin would indicate good shipping quality, and 

 if sufficiently productive — as it has been on the Station grounds — 

 it may become a good market variety. The tree is hardy and 

 productive, though only moderately vigorous, resembling its other 

 parent, Winter Nelis, somewhat in habit of growth. It is said to 

 be blight proof; and its parentage and successful development in the 

 south, where only a blight-resistant pear could succeed, would 

 indicate relative immunity to blight. 



PEACHES. 



Many admirable qualities are combined in Arp 

 Arp Beauty. Beauty. It is the earliest good yellow peach, 

 coming to maturity a month to five weeks earlier 

 than Elberta and lasting for a remarkably long season for a variety 

 so early. Its round-oval shape and shallow suture make it very 

 pleasing in form. Its skin is creamy and yellow with a heavy blush 

 of red and with a thick cover of short pubescence having the sheen 

 of velvet, altogether making it a beautiful peach. The flesh is 

 light yellow, firm, juicy, sweet, rich and of excellent quality, but 

 unfortunately clings rather tenaciously to the stone. At the Sta- 

 tion the trees are healthy, vigorous, productive and hardier in bud 

 than the average, its buds having withstood the cold of the severe 

 winter of 1911 and 1912, which spared few other varieties. The 

 shipping qualities of the fruit have not been well tested here, but it 

 seems as suitable for this purpose as any of the standard varieties. 

 It may be well adapted for market purposes and it certainly should 

 be in every home orchard. 



Of all varieties advertised to follow Elberta in 



Frances. the markets, Frances is the best peach grown on 



the Station grounds. Its fruits are practically as 



large as those of Elberta and even more handsome, with a richer 



background of yellow and more brilliancy in its red cheek, more 



nearly round and more uniform in size and shape. Its quality is 



