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Pom. Mag., but we suspect he had not produced it under 

 favorable circumstances. Our drawing is from a specimen 

 produced in the collection of Mrs. Heard, of Watertown, in 

 1846, and, in beauty as well as quality, it was a first-rate 

 fruit. Where the locality is unfavorable as a dwarf or stand- 

 ard, we would recommend it as deserving a wall or an espa- 

 lier. 



Fig. 27. Forelle. 



Size, large, about two inches in diameter, and three long : 

 Form, oblong obovate, regular, rather the largest in the mid- 

 dle, and tapering to an obtuse point at the stem : Skin, fair, 

 smooth, dull yellow in the shade, broadly shaded with ver- 

 milion on the sunny side, and beautifully speckled with gray- 

 ish dots, which are deeply margined with crimson : Stem, 

 rather short, about three quarters of an inch, slender, nearly 

 straight, and obliquely inserted in a small, shallow, contract- 

 ed cavity, with a swollen lip or projection on one side : Bye, 

 medium size, partially open, moderately sunk in a small and 

 rather abruptly depressed basin ; segments of the calyx broad 



