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O T O B E 



It •seems iinaccoiuitabl 

 should be so nmeh 

 neglected. I am 

 acquainted with an 

 orchard of this fruit 

 that has borne reg- 

 ularly for more than 

 twenty years, yield- 

 ing enormous crops. 



This variety is 

 native of Rhode Is- 

 land ; it has a cha- 

 racteristic, upright 

 growth, the branch- 

 es shooting up al- 

 most parallel with 

 the body. 



The fruit is beau- 

 tiful, on one side of 

 a dull red, shading 

 to yellowish green 

 on the other ; ordi- 

 narilV; somewhat 

 smaller than the 

 Vergalieu, — but 

 when thinned, of 

 equal size, growing 



that so valuable a variety as this 



Fig. 70. 



clusters ; and when in perfection, delicious with abundant sweet 

 juice, peculiarly aromatic— often as good, I think, as the Seckel 

 or Vergalieu, but tending to mealiness when over-ripe. 



