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SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. 



and splashed, a beautiful fruit; dots distinct, many, russet, rather 

 large; cavity wide, obtuse, wavy, lined with greenish russet; stem 

 medium; basin abrupt, smooth, rather shallow; calyx closed; seg- 

 ments erect convergent. Core closed, meeting; cells obovate, 

 entire; tube broad, funnel-shaped; stamens median; seeds long, 



Rome Beauty. 



plump, pointed; flesh yellow, coarse-grained, tender, juicy, sprightly 

 subacid, good. Early winter. 



Romna (No. 599; Romenskoe). Origin, Russia. 



Fruit large, very regular, roundish, conical; surface smooth, 

 green, with faint bronze blush; dots distinct, many, large, gray; 

 cavity regular, acute; stem medium, stout; basin narrow, wrinkled, 

 very shallow; calyx closed. Core closed, clasping; tube funnel- 

 shaped; stamens median; flesh white, firm, pleasant subacid, good. 

 Late winter and spring. 



Rosenhager. Imported from Russia. 



Fruit medium, roundish oblate, somewhat conical, sometimes 

 broadly furrowed; surface yellow, mostly covered with bright rosy 

 crimson stripes and splashes on sunny side, overlaid with whitish 

 net-veining; dots few, obscure, light gray, some distinct with dark 



