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THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



QUINCES. 



APPLE-SHAPED. Fruit, large, roundish, and very similar in 

 shape to an apple. The skin is of a fine golden yellow colour when 

 ripe ; and the flavour of the flesh when stewed is very excellent. 



PEAR-SHAPED. This is the variety which is most commonly 

 grown, and is very often met with in shrubberies as an ornamental 

 tree. The fruit, as the name implies, is shaped like a pear, tapering 

 to the stalk. The skin is yellow, and somewhat woolly. The flesh is 

 dry, woolly, and not so succulent as the former, although it is, perhaps, 

 more cultivated than that variety. 



PORTUGAL. This is a superior variety to either of the above, the 

 fruit being much milder in flavour, and better adapted for marmalade 

 and stewing. The tree is a much more luxuriant grower, but does not 

 bear freely, and hence its cultivation is not so general as is that of the 

 others. The fruit has the property of changing to a red colour when 

 cooked. 



RASPBERRIES. 



SYNOPSIS OF RASPBERRIES. 



Black 



I. SUMMER BEARERS. 



1. Fruit black. 



| Black Cap 



Bamet 



Baumforth's Seedling 



Carter's Prolific 



Cornwell's Victoria 



Cushing 



Fastolf 



Franconia 



Knevett's Giant 



Brinckle's Orange 

 Magnum Bonum 



2. Fruit red. 



Lord Beaconsfield 

 Northumberland Fillbasket 

 Prince of Wales 

 Red Antwerp 

 Round Antwerp 

 Vice- President French 

 Walker's Dulcis 



3. Fruit yellow. 



Sweet Yellow Antwerp 

 Yellow Antwerp 



Autumn Black 

 New Rochelle 



II. AUTUMNAL BEARERS. 

 1. Fruit black. 



Ohio Everbearing 



