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TREE. 



Tree a slow grower with moderately long and stout branches. Form open, 

 spreading, becoming rather flat-topped. Twigs short, straight, stout; inter- 

 nodes short. Bark clear brown tinged with olive-green, lightly streaked with 

 scarf-skin, slightly pubescent. Lenticels quite numerous, very small, oval, not 

 raised. Buds small, plump, obtuse, free, slightly pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit below medium to large, pretty uniform in size. Form roundish, 

 usually somewhat oblate, sometimes inclined to conic, fairly symmetrical, 

 irregular, often obscurely angular or ribbed. Stem rather slender. Cavity 

 acuminate, moderately wide, moderately deep to deep, angular, sometimes 

 lipped, often partly russeted and with some outspreading russet. Calyx pubes- 

 cent, rather small, closed. Basin shallow to moderately deep, sometimes 

 abrupt, compressed or furrowed. 



Skin thin, tough, smooth, pale green or yellow blushed and mottled with 

 dark red, striped with carmine and overspread with thin bloom ; highly colored 

 specimens become deep red and almost purplish. Dots medium in size, light, 

 sometimes mingled with flecks of russet. Prevailing color dark red dulled 

 by bluish bloom. 



Calyx tube rather small, narrow, funnel-form. Stamens median to basal. 



Core below medium, somewhat abaxile with hollow cylinder at the axis ; 

 cells usually symmetrical, partly open or closed ; core lines clasping. Carpels 

 smooth, distinctly concave, elliptical, obtusely emarginate, mucronate. Seeds 

 numerous, variable, small to medium, obtuse. 



Flesh white, very tender, fine-grained, juicy, sweet, crisp, good. 



OCCIDENT. 



REFERENCES, i. Goff, N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 2:35. 1883. 2. Bailey, An. Hort., 

 1892:245. 3. Beach, W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1896:52. 4. Beach and Clark, 

 .V. Y. Sta. Bui., 248:135. 1904. 



This fruit is of the Yellow Bellflower type, attractive bright yellow, excel- 

 lent in quality and a remarkably good keeper. The tree is a little slow in 

 coming into bearing but it is a strong grower, a reliable cropper and very pro- 

 ductive. The fruit hangs well to the tree. As grown here it is not large. It 

 sometimes averages above medium and sometimes below medium size, Usually 

 it is pretty uniform for the crop both in size and shape. Apparently it would 

 be a desirable variety for commercial planting in New York were it not some- 

 what deficient in size. 



Historical. Originated by L. J. Fish, Martinez, California. Said to be a 

 seedling of Yellow Bellflower. Scions of it were received in 1883 from Ell- 

 wanger and Barry for testing at this Station. It was being then regarded as 

 one of the promising new varieties. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit above medium to below medium. Form roundish oblate to roundish 

 conic, often faintly ribbed. Stem long, stout. Cavity rather large, acuminate 

 to acute, deep and moderately broad, sometimes russeted. Calyx closed or 



