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along: the branchlots. The tree is hardy and its blossoming-time 

 is late, so the variety is well adapted to northern latitudes. 

 Late Duke has been cultivated in Europe for more than a 

 century, and has been in America nearly that length of time. 



Tree vigorous, upright-spreading, open-topped, productive. Fruit very 

 late; 1 inch in diameter, blunt -cordate, compressed; cavity wide; suture 

 shallow; color dark red; stem slender, IVo to 2 inches long, deeply in- 

 serted; flesh amber-colored, with abundant juice, tender, rich, sprightly 

 subacid; stone semi-clinging, medium to large, round-ovate, compressed. 



