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Its handsome appearance, delightful perfume, sprightly flavour, 

 and the long time which it remains in perfection, render it uni- 

 versally admired wherever it is known, and no garden should 

 be without it. It is a native of this neighbourhood, and thou- 

 sands of trees of this variety, have been sent from this garden, 

 to various parts of the union. The wood is not very strong, but 

 it grows thriftily, and bears very abundantly. 



Fruit large, roundish-ovate, narrowing pretty rapidly to the 

 eye. Skin very smooth, nearly covered with red in the sun, but 

 pale yellowish-green in the shade, with broken stripes of pale 

 red. The red is sprinkled with well marked, yellowish-gray dots 

 and covered, when first gathered, with a thin white bloom. 

 There is also generally a faint marbling of cloudy white over 

 the red, on the shady side of the fruit, and rays of the same 

 around the stalk. Calyx quite small, set in a narrow, shallow, 

 plaited basin. Stalk half an inch long, in a shallow cavity. 

 Flesh greenish- white, exceedingly tender, juicy and crisp, with 

 a delicious, sprightly, agreeably perfumed flavour. Keeps 

 without shrivelling, or losing its flavour, till May. 



158. SWEETING, TOLMAN'S. 



Tne Tolman's Sweeting is scarcely second rate as a table 

 fruit, but it is one of the most popular orchard sorts, from its 

 great productiveness, its value as food for swine and cattle, as 

 well as for baking. Form nearly globular. Skin, when fully 

 ripe, whitish-yellow, with a soft blush on one side. Stalk 

 rather long and slender, inclining to one side, and inserted in a 

 rather wide, shallow, but regular cavity. Calyx set in a small 

 basin, slightly depressed. Flesh quite white, rather firm, fine 

 grained, with a rich, sweet flavour. November to April. This 

 fruit, a native of Rhode Island, considerably resembles the 

 Danver's Winter Sweet, of Massachusetts. 



159. SWEETING, RAMSDELL'S. 



Ramsdel's Red Pumpkin Sweet. Ken. 

 Ramsdell's Sweet. 

 Red Pumpkin Sweet. 



Ramsdell's Sweeting we have lately received from Connec- 

 ticut, where it is greatly esteemed for the very large crops it 

 bears, as well as for its remarkably rich saccharine flavour. 

 We believe it is a native of Connecticut ; and it derives its 

 name from the Rev. H. S. Ramsdell, of Thompson, in that 



