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smooth, with numerous russet patches, yellow, washed red, splashed 

 and striped crimson; dots brown, erupted ; cavity regular, large, deep, 

 wide russet margins; stem medium, slender; basin regular, medium,' 



Domine. 



gradual with shallow furrows; calyx small, partially closed; segments 

 small, converging, slightly reflexed. Core large, conical, clasping; 

 seeds medium, plump, brown; flesh yellowish, fine, breaking, juicy, 

 rich, aromatic, subacid, very good. August. (U. S. Dept. Agr., 1902.) 



Dudley Winter (North Star). A bright-colored seedling of Olden- 

 burg, originated by J. W. Dudley, Aroostook Co., Maine, and sent 

 out under the name of North Star by a Rochester nursery; but this 

 name is already occupied. 



Fruit large, regular, roundish oblate; surface smooth, yellow, 

 mostly covered with bright rosy crimson -stripes and splashes, coloring 

 nearly solid on sunny side, with thin bluish bloom; cavity regular, 

 wide, obtuse, with trace of stellate russet; stem long; basin deep, 

 abrupt, corrugated and ribbed; calyx closed; segments erect conver- 

 gent. Core closed; cells round, widely slit; tube conical, rather 

 urn-shaped; stamens median; seeds plump, pointed; flesh yellow, 

 white inside the core outline, fine-grained, pleasant subacid, very 

 good. Late fall and early winter. 



