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POUND KOYAL. 



Synonym. Winter-pound Royal. The fruit is large, roundish-oblong-conical, 

 with a surface slightly uneven ; color, pale, yellowish-white, occasionally with a 

 1'aint blush, and, when ripe, marked with a few large, ruddy, and dark specks ; the 

 flesh is very tender, breaking, fine-grained, with a mild, agreeable, aromatic, sub- 

 ncid taste ; season, December to April. The tree has a broad spreading top, and 

 requires the best of cultivation to insure good crops of fruit. 



thawed as we had seen recommended in some agricultu- 

 ral papers died the same season. When the machine is 

 hitched to a tree, and we have lifted on it almost enough to 

 start it, take a lever or crowbar, and loosen the ball of earth 

 a little all around the trench. This precaution will some- 

 times prevent the ball of earth from breaking, and the break- 

 ing of some part of the machine also. With such a ma- 

 chine, we have often gone two miles from home, and re- 



