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difficult to avoid the conclusion that the one is a sub- variety 

 of the other ; the latter is a little fuller in the eye than the 

 former, but both are beautiful, productive, and valuable. Their 

 clear, but not strong acid, fits them for making pies of special 

 excellence, and for this purpose they may be gathered from 

 early summer to quite late fall ; they are also, on account of 

 their form and character, superior for peeling and drying. 



Fig. 154 



13. PORTER (Fig. 155). 



Tree erect, and of fine, rapid growth, requiring care to keep 

 the head sufficiently open ; healthful, and a good bearer. 



Fruit medium, or above ; regular oblong conical ; yellow, 

 with red upon the sunny side. 



Flesh white, tender, juicy. 



Flavor fine mild subacid to acid. 



Ripens in September and October. 



The Porter is a favorite in Boston and vicinity, and succeeds 

 well throughout the North, where it is used both for eating out 

 of hand and cooking ; for the latter use, the Keswick Codlin, 

 which in general form and color somewhat resembles it, may 

 be profitably substituted for it at the West. It is a heavy 



