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Herefordshire Pearmain. 



Winter Pearmain, erroneoiisZy, I Parmin Royal, 



Royal Pearmain, I Old Pearmain, 



Royale d'Angleterre. 



Foreign. Tree, hardy, requiring rich, strong soil, when the fruit 

 Is of the highest excellence ; shoots slender, diverging, partially droop- 

 ing. 



Fruity medium ; form^ roundish, conical ; color^ brownish red, 

 mottled, and slightly striped, on a dull russety green, or when fully 

 matured, yellow ground, with stripes and marblings of russet, 

 from the stem, dotted with greyish specks ; stern^ slender ; canity^ 

 acuminate,, russeted ; calyx^ open ; basin^ medium ; fiesh^ yellow- 

 ish, tender, mild, sub-acid, aromatic ; core^ medium, laying nearest 

 the stem end ; seeds^ iarge, ovate, light brown. Season, December 

 to February. 



Sutton. 



Hubbardston Nonsuch, 

 Sutton, I Sutton Beauty. 



American. Originated in Mass. A superior fruit, succeeding even 

 better when grown West, than in its native locality. Tree, vigorous 

 grower ; shoots, rather slender, very different from the Baldwin, 

 which has often been disseminated as this variety ; spreading ; very 

 productive. 



