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flesh acid with some astringency, juicy, good for cooking. Late fall 

 and early winter. 



Hibernal. 



Hightop Sweet (Sweet June). Origin, Plymouth, Massachusetts; 

 tree very upright, vigorous, and productive. 



Fruit medium, or below, roundish, regular, somewhat truncated; 

 surface very smooth, clear, light yellow, becoming unctuous, some 

 times with faint bronze blush; dots many, obscure, minute, green; 

 cavity regular, acute, deep, with thin stellate russet; stem medium; 

 basin nearly smooth, abrupt, regular, rather shallow; calyx closed; 

 segments erect convergent. Core closed; cells round, entire; calyx 

 tube funnel-shaped ; stamens marginal ; seeds long, pointed, angular ; 

 flesh yellow, with yellow veinings, tender, moderately juicy, very 

 sweet. Very good. June to August. 



Hockett. Origin, North Carolina. 



Fruit medium, roundish oblate; surface yellow, shaded, splashed 

 and striped with deep red. Flesh yellowish white, moderately juicy, 

 crisp, rather rich, sweet, good. December to March. 



Hoover. Origin, South Carolina; tree upright, spreading, re- 

 taining foliage late. 



Fruit medium, roundish, sometimes roundish oblate, slightly 

 oblique; surface yellowish, mostly overspread, splashed, and striped 



