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yellow with a cream-colored bloom. Flesh juicy, sweet, and rather 

 rich in flavor; pit not free. Tree quite tender. Triflora. 



Kingston. Medium in size, oval, color blue with blue bloom and 

 numerous small dots; suture shallow; stem medium in length, in 



Jefferson. 



moderately deep cavity. Flesh greenish yellow; quality fair to good. 

 Originated in Ontario, Canada, Domestica. 



Lafayette. Large, roundish, color purple with heavy bloom. 

 Flesh juicy, rich, quality very good; pit free. Season, last of Sep- 

 tember. Grown east of the lakes. England. 



Lincoln. Large, oblong oval; color reddish purple, with showy 

 bloom; stem medium, inclined, and inserted at top of slight neck. 

 Flesh light yellow, sweet, rich-flavored; freestone. A seedling of 

 Green Gage now popular in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Domes- 

 tica. Pennsylvania. 



Lombard. Medium to large, somewhat flattened at ends; color 

 purplish red with whitish dots and blue bloom; stalk short, slender, 

 inserted in broad abrupt cavity; suture shallow. Flesh yellow, 



