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trees of this kind now in our country, as he has taken much pains to 

 recommend it." Why Prince and other Americans came to call the variety 

 introduced by the elder Prince of Europe as Yellow Spanish, as Bigarreau 

 and Grafifion, does not appear unless the younger Prince wanted to make 

 the name in this country conform to that in most common usage in England 

 at the time. Besides the names already given, Yellow Spanish has been 

 rather widely grown in America as Ox Heart and White Caroon. This 

 variety was placed on the recommended list of the National Congress of 

 Fruit Growers, which afterwards became the American Pomological Society, 

 in 1848, imder the name Bigarreau. The name was changed in 1897 to 

 Yellow Spanish and it now appears on the list of that organization as 

 Spanish. 



Tree very large and vigorous, upright-spreading, rather open-topped, productive; 

 trunk thick, of medium smoothness; branches stocky, reddish-brown covered with ash- 

 gray, smooth except for the numerous large lenticels; branchlets short, brown nearly 

 overspread with ash-gray, smooth, with small, slightly raised, inconspicuous lenticels. 



Leaves numerous five and one-half inches long, two and one-half inches wide, folded 

 upward, obovate to elliptical; upper surface dark green, nearly smooth, grooved along 

 the midrib; lower surface light green, lightly pubescent; apex acute, base variable in shape; 

 margin coarsely and doubly serrate, with small, dark glands; petiole one and three-fourths 

 inches long, thick, heavily tinged with duU red, grooved along the upper surface, with from 

 one to four large, reniform, reddish-yellow glands variable in position. 



Buds conical, plump, free, arranged singly or in small clusters as lateral buds and 

 from short spurs; leaf -scars prominent; season of bloom intermediate; flowers white, one 

 and one-fourth inches across; borne in well-distributed clusters, in twos and in threes; 

 pedicels about one inch long, glabrous, green; calyx-tube greenish, obconic, glabrous; calyx- 

 lobes acute, reflexed; petals oval, entire, strongly dentate at the apex, tapering to short, 

 blunt claws; filaments three-eighths inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to the stamens in 

 length. 



Frviit matures in mid-season; one inch or over in diameter, cordate, compressed; 

 cavity deep, wide, flaring; suture a mere line; apex roundish, not depressed; color bright 

 amber-yellow with a reddish blush, slightly mottled; dots numerous, small, light russet, 

 obscure; stem one and one-half inches long, adherent to the fruit; sldn thin, tough, sepa- 

 rating from the ptilp; flesh whitish, with colorless juice, tender, meaty, crisp, aromatic, 

 sprightly, sweet; very good to best in quality; stone free, ovate, slightly flattened, oblique, 

 with smooth surfaces; with two small, blunt ridges along the ventral suture near the apex. 



