ii4 Catalogue of Varieties. 



PRINCESS OF WALES (Knight). Large, round, oval or flattened, 

 bright red; seeds prominent; flesh rosy white, juicy, sweet, 

 and perfumed. Vigorous, forces well, and extremely early. 



* PRINCESS ROYAL (Ingram). Uniform, obtusely scarlet, dark 



crimson; flesh firm, highly perfumed, and richly flavored. Has 

 proved a good bearer in this country. Pistillate. (?) Fig. in 

 Hort. XIII. 467. 



PRINCESSE ROY ALE (Pelvilain). Seedling of the Keens's Seed- 

 ling, that from Keens's Imperial, and the latter from the White 

 Carolina. Obtained at Meudon, in France, about 1846, and in 

 1859 about twelve hundred acres were cultivated for the Paris 

 market. Fruit very large, regularly oval, very bright red; 

 flesh rosy, firm, with a central cavity, and filled with an acid 

 and not highly flavored juice. A favorite abroad ; but Gloede 

 remarks that it should be replaced by better kinds. Fig. in Jar. 

 Mus. II. and Alb. de Pomol. IV. p. 78. 



PRINCESS ROYAL OF ENGLAND (Cuthill). Medium size, light 

 color; flesh lemon color, fine flavored. Productive. 



PRINCE'S IMPERIAL SCARLET (Prince). Fruit large, light scar- 

 let, and of excellent flavor. Pistillate. Obtusely conical, firm 

 fleshed, juicy, and pleasant, according to another authority. 

 Fig. in Hort. XIV. 419. 



PRISCILLA. 



PROFUSE SCARLET. Medium, scarlet, productive. 



* PROFUSION (Burr). Medium or small, rich and sweet; a pro- 



digious bearer. Pistillate. 



PROGRES (De Jonghe). Fruit large, rounded or flattened, 

 squared at the end, deep purple red; seeds prominent; flesh 

 rosy white, firm, sweet, and brisk. Early. 



PROLIFIC. Large, conical, light glossy scarlet, rich flavor, unpro- 

 ductive. English. (Downing.) 



PROLIFIC HAUTBOIS. (Syn. Double Bearing Hautbois, Musk, 

 Regenfs, Hermaphrodite, Dwarf, Sacombe, Sir Joseph Banks' s^ 

 Spring Grove, and probably others.) Large, obtusely conical, 

 dark, but not so dark as the Black Hautbois; seeds slightly 

 imbedded ; flesh solid, greenish, and high flavored. The best 

 of its class, and sometimes gives a second crop. Fig. in Pom. 

 Mag. I. 31. 



PROLIFIC IOWA (Prince). Described by the originator as large, 

 conical, bright scarlet, and productive. 



PROLIFIC ORANGE. (See ORANGE PROLIFIC.) 



