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of a very light pale yellow. The blossoms, too, from whence 

 its name, are large, showy and beautiful. When loaded with 

 its large fruit, the slender branches weep to the ground with 

 their weight, and the tree is then one of the most beautiful 

 in the orchard. 



Size, large, about three inches long and three broad : 

 Form, oblong, inclining to conical, largest about the middle, 

 narrowing considerably to the eye, with five or six prominent 



Fig. 38. Bdlfower. 



ribs extending its whole length, somewhat irregular in out" 

 line : Skin^ fair, smooth, deep yellow, handsomely tinged 

 with blush on the surmy side, dotted with crimson, and 

 sparsely covered with small russet specks in the shade : 

 Stem, medium length, about one inch long, rather slender, 

 and deeply inserted in a large and somewhat open, ribbed, 

 cavity : Eye, large, partially closed, and little sunk in a 

 small, abruptly depressed, and distinctly ribbed basin ; seg- 

 ments of the calyx, entire, incurved : Fleshy yellowish, coarse, 



