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Fruit large, rouudish ovate, narrowing pretty rapidly to the eye. 

 Skin very smooth, nearly covered with red in the sun, but pale yellowish 

 green in the shade, with broken stripes of pale red. The red is sprin- 

 kled with well-marked yellowisli gray dots, and covered, when first gath- 

 ered, with a thin white bloom. There is also generally a faint mar- 

 bling of cloudy white over the red, on the shady side of the fruit, and 



Lady's Sweet. 



rays of the same around the stalk. Calyx quite small, set in a narrow, 

 shallow, plaited basin. Stalk half an inch long, in a shallow cavity. 

 Flesh greenish white, exceedingly tender, juicy, and crisp, with a deli- 

 cious, sprightly, agreeably perfumed flavor. Very good or best. Keeps 

 without shrivelling, or losing its flavor, till May. 



Lady's White. 



Origin, Franklin Co., O. Tree a good grower and bearer. 

 Fruit medium or below, roundish, whitish, very smooth and fair. 

 Flesh white, tender, juicy, subacid. December to February. 



Lafayette. 



Originated in Chester, N. H., on the farm of William Jenney, and 

 first fruited in 1824, the year of General Lafayette's visit to this coun- 

 try, hence its name. It is much esteemed in its native locality, but has 

 been little disseminated. Tree a good grower and an annual Ijearer. 



Fruit medium, roundish, whitish yellow, shaded, splashed, and mar- 

 Died with crimson, modei-ately sprinkled with light dots. Stalk rather 



