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been introduced a sufficient length of time to produce fruit 

 in any quantity. It is a favorite variety with all who know 

 it ; ranking, for its beauty and high flavor, with the Baldwin 

 and other fine winter varieties. The tree is a healthy and 

 vigorous grower, possessing a good habit, and bears large 

 crops of very fair fruit. It deserves general introduction. 



Size, large, about three and a half inches broad, and two 

 and three-quarters deep : Fortn, roundish oblate, broad and 

 somewhat flattened at the base, and rather wide at the crown, 

 slightly ribbed, and somewhat angular in outline : Skin, fair, 

 smooth, with a yellow ground, broadly and deeply colored 

 with deep crimson, indistinctly striped, and conspicuously 

 dotted with yellow specks : Stem, very short, less than half 

 an inch long, stout, and inserted in a broad, very shallow 

 cavity: Eye, medium size, closed, and little depressed, in a 

 small basin ; segments of the calyx, broad, regular, complete : 

 Flesh, yellowish, fine, rather firm, crisp and tender : Juice, 

 abundant, very pleasantly acid, brisk, rich, and fine-flavored : 

 Core, large, nearly closed : Seeds, medium size, plump, and 

 somewhat angular. Ripe from November to January. 



•STUDIES IN THE FIELD AND FOREST. 



BY WILSON FLAGQ. 



DECEMBER. 



The last green herb has faded on the hill, 



The woods are seared ; the brooks are hushed and still. 



The dry oak leaf is shaking in the wind ; 



Autumn has fled and left no flower behind. 



No leaves conceal the bird's deserted nest ; 



For now the evergreens alone are drest 



In foliage, and the little quadrupeds 



Are silent in their subterranean beds. 



All have retreated to their little dens, 



And gloom and silence fill the hollow glens. 



But think not, since the plains are bound in frost, 



Or robed in snow, that all our joys are lost. 



