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ing; tube funnel-shaped, open nearly to core; stamens median; flesh 

 snow-white, firm, fine-grained, rich, spicy, mild subacid, with sweet 

 after-taste, very good. September, October. 



Switzer. 



Taunton. Origin unknown; some claim it for Alabama, others 

 Georgia; tree a vigorous but straggling grower, very productive. 



Fruit rather large, oblate conic; surface greenish yellow, striped 

 and splashed with red, darkest on sun side; dots large, light; cavity 

 deep, russeted; stem slender; basin slightly corrugated; calyx closed; 

 segments long, slender; flesh whitish, tender, juicy, aromatic, acid; 

 good. September, October. 



Terry Winter. Origin, Clayton Co., Georgia, some twenty-five 

 miles south of Atlanta; tree moderately vigorous, of rather slender 

 open growth, with abundant healthy foliage; an early and heavy 

 annual bearer. Prof. H. N. Starnes, of Georgia Experiment Station, 

 reports it valuable for the South, owing to its very late keeping, 

 good quality, and extreme productiveness ; its faults are its want of 

 size, produced by its tendency to overbear, and its too firm texture 

 in early winter. 



Fruit medium or below, oblate, regular; surface a clear light 

 yellow, mostly covered with fine dark red, with carmine splashes and 

 stripes; dots distinct, many, minute, yellow, some large russet dots; 



