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regular or slightly ribbed. Stem short to medium, slender. Cavity acute to 

 nearly obtuse, medium in width and depth, sometimes russeted. Calyx small 

 to medium, closed or partly open; lobes rather short, narrow, acute. Basin 

 shallow to. medium in depth, moderately wide, rather abrupt, usually fur- 

 rowed. 



Skin thin, tender, smooth, clear yellow mostly overlaid with bright red 

 indistinctly striped with carmine. Dots small, yellowish. 



Calyx tube rather wide, slightly funnel-form to conical with pistil point 

 projecting into the base. Stamens median to marginal. 



Core below medium, somewhat abaxile; cells open; core lines clasping. 

 Carpels broadly ovate to elliptical, slightly emarginate. Seeds medium to 

 large, moderately wide, flat, plump, acute. 



Flesh whitish slightly tinged with yellow, moderately firm, fine, very ten- 

 der, juicy, mild subacid, good to very good. 



Season September to November or later. 



FISHKILL. 



REFERENCES, i. Downing, 1869:176. 2. N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 11:222. 

 1892. 3. Waugh, Vt. Sta. An. Rpt., 14:294. 1901. 

 SYNONYMS. FISHKILL (2,3). FISHKILL BEAUTY (i). Fishkill Beauty (2). 



Fruit large, rather attractive in appearance, but not good enough 

 in quality to displace standard sorts of its season either for culinary 

 or dessert uses. Downing remarks that it is apt to decay on the 

 tree (i), but this has not proved true in our experience with the 

 variety. The tree comes into bearing rather early and is almost 

 an annual bearer, yielding fair to good crops of uniformly large 

 fruit. Should it possess superior hardiness it may be worthy of 

 trial in those regions where this character is a prime requisite. 



Historical. Origin Fishkill, N. Y. 



TREE. 



Tree vigorous with long, slender, curved branches ; laterals willowy, long, 

 slender. Form upright spreading or roundish, rather dense. Twigs short to 

 medium, straight, moderately slender, rather geniculate ; internodes medium 

 to long. Bark brown tinged with clear reddish brown, mottled with scarf- 

 skin ; slightly pubescent. Lenticds numerous, small or below medium, gen- 

 erally elongated and narrow, usually not raised. Buds small to above me- 

 dium, plump, obtuse to somewhat acute, usually free or nearly so. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit very large to large, uniform in size and shape. Form nearly round 

 varying to somewhat oblate or oblate conic, regular, obscurely ribbed. Stem 



