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Fruit large, roundish oblate, obscurely conical; surface yellow, 

 mostly shaded and striped with bright red; dots few, gray; cavity 

 rather large; stem short; basin deep, corrugated; calyx open. 



Maverack. 



Core small; flesh yellowish, tender, rich, sweet, very good. Novem- 

 ber to February. 



Melon, Norton. Origin, East Bloomfield, New York; tree a rather 

 slow grower while young, spreading, round-topped, productive; fruit 

 too tender for distant shipment. 



Fruit medium to large; form roundish oblate, slightly conical, 

 obscurely ribbed toward the basin; surface smooth, pale waxen 

 yellow, nearly covered with marbled and mixed bright red, distinctly 

 splashed and striped with darker crimson, with net-veining and 

 patches of very thin smooth pale brown russet; dots minute, few, 

 light and brown; cavity large, deep, acute, wavy, often with much 

 russet; stem medium, slender; basin wide, medium, slightly corru- 

 gated; calyx half open. Core partially open, clasping; cells round, 

 axile, slit; tube conical; stamens marginal, median, or basal; seeds 



