ADDrnONAL LIST. 



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being short-lived, cankerous, and unwholesome on the Quince^ very 

 difiicult to ripen, often woody and astringent; fruits early, of fair 

 Fizc and color, keeps like a black walnut, and tastes like one eaten 

 — husk and all. Stem thick, irregular, llcsliy, declined. Fruit 

 obovate. short pyriform ; said by some to be '• good," even '• best." 

 But it cannot be recomendcd for general culture. 



Beurre d'Amaulis. 



OCTOB EE. 



Large, productive, fine flavored, often as good as the Bartlett. 

 Tree a prodigious j-jg gg_ 



rampant grower, 

 difficult of re- 

 straint. The fruit 

 has the defect of 

 never attaining 

 more than a dun, 

 dusky yellowish 

 green, sometimes 

 with a faint blush, 

 and is far from 

 attractive in ap- 

 pearance. Flesh 

 yellowish, often 

 somewhat coarse, 

 must be eaten im- 

 mediately on rip- 

 ening, soon beco- 

 ming mealy and 

 insipid. Shape, 

 short obovate, in- 

 clined to irregular 

 turbinate. Stem 

 long, oblique, ca- 

 lyx open, basin 

 shallow. 



