INTERMEDIATE NATIVE FRUIT REPORT. 



INTERMEDIATE NATIVE FRUIT REPORT. 



The Committee of the American Pomological Society on Native Fruits, respect- 

 fully submit to the President of the American Pomolofj;ical Society its first Inter- 

 mediate Report. In presenting these Reports, the Committee is aware of the 

 labor that will be encountered, and the responsibility that must necessarily be 

 assumed. A correct estimate of the merits of a new fruit, examined for the first 

 time, is no easy task. Due allowance must be made for the difficulty of ascertain- 

 ing the precise period when a new fruit has arrived at its full maturity. But as 

 the chances are greatly in favor of its not being examined exactly at the proper 

 time, its excellence will be more likely to be underrated than the reverse. On 

 this account, many varieties have, no doubt, been consigned to the tomb of the 

 Capulets that richly deserved a more enduring existence. The XJwchlan Pear 

 is an instance in point. On its first presentation, it was condemned as worthless 

 by an able and intelligent fruit committee, that would most assuredly have regarded 

 it as a variety of the greatest excellence had it been examined at the right moment. 



Cata"v\t[ssa Raspberry. — This fine new ever-bearing Raspberry is a native af 

 Catawissa, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, and has been brought into notice by 

 Mr. Joshua Peirce, of Washington, D. C. A plant that had withstood, without 

 protection, the unprecedented and intense cold of last winter, was examined on 

 the Yth of September. At that time it was loaded with blossoms, ripe fruit, and 

 unripe berries, in all the intermediate stages. 



Size of Berry, rather large, some being three-fourths of an inch in diameter. 

 Form, roundish-oblate, or, more correctly, hemispherical. Skin, of a deep crim- 

 son color, thickly covered with bloom. Flavor, fully equal to the so-called, but 

 spurious, Antwerp Raspberry of the Philadelphia market. Quality, "very good." 

 This variety is an ever-bearer, wonderfully productive, and worthy of cultivation. 



TiTus Peach. — This fine new Peach originated with Mrs. Sarah Titus, No, 

 G4 Ogden Street above 

 Eleventh, Philadelphia. 

 Specimens of the fruit 

 were exhibited at the 

 annual fair of the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural 

 Society, in 1856. 



Size, large, 2 and 9- 

 16th inches in length by 

 2 and 3-16ths broad. 

 Form, roundish. Skin, 

 fair yellow, with a red 

 cheek. Cavity, open. 

 Stone, deeply cut, 1| 

 inches long, \\ wide, | 

 thick — free. Flesh, yel- 

 low, red next the stone, 

 juicy, unadherent. Fla- 

 vor, luscious. Quality, 

 "best." Maturity, from 

 the middle to the last of 

 September. Eaten Sep- 

 tember 29, 1856. 



