WORTHY GEJS'ERAL CULTIVATION. 



838 



N. Y. Thus far it succeeds equally well on the qumce or pear root, 

 and as a profitable market variety deserves extensive culture. Tree 

 vigorous, with strong, upright, olive-colored shoots. 



Fruit, large, ovate, obovate ; color, pale greenish yellow, becoming 

 golden yellow at maturity, many gray russet dots, and occasionally 



a dull blush in sur ; stem, one to one and a half inch long, inserted 

 without depression, but with lip of fruit folded unevenly around it; 

 calyx, rather small, closed; basin, shallow, abrupt, and marked with 

 patches of cinnamon russet ; core, compact ; seeds, small ; fiesh, white, 

 juicy, buttery. Season, October and November. 



