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Fruity medium ; form, roundish, flattened, slightly ribbed at base ; 

 color, yellow ground, mostly covered with deep glossy red, with 

 stripes and splashes of light red, and marked with irregular light 

 russet specks ; stem, slender ; cavity, wide, deep ; calyx, small ; 6a- 

 sin, broad and open ; Jlesh, yellowish white, tine grained, crisp, 

 juicy, sprightly, vinous, sub-acid ; core, small, oblong ovate ; seeds^ 

 light brown, ovate pyriform. Season, November to March, but will 

 keep to May. 



Westfield Seek-no-further. 



CJonnecticut Seek-no-furthiT, | Seek-no-further. 

 Red Wint-r I'caniiiiin, nf sonie. 



An old variety from Connecticut. For all qualities of tree and 

 fruit has no superior. Very popuhir in its native State, all South 

 and West. Grown in rich loamy alluvial soils of the South, it is 

 much russeted, and about the stem the russet has appearance of rich 

 bronze ; progressing northward, it grtidually loses its russet, until on 

 light sandy soils in Michigan, it becomes a pale yellow ground, with 

 stripes and splashes of clear red and minute dots. 



Fruit, medium ; form, regular, roundish, conical— Abroad at base ; 

 color, light yellow ground, the sunny side striped and splashed with 

 red, small russet dots shaded around with light russet yellow; often 

 considerable russet about both stem and calyx ; sttm, long, slender ; 

 cavity, open, regular; calyx,\sua.\\y small, closed, sometimes open, 



