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SYSTEM A TIC POMOLOGY. 



Fruit small to medium, conical, truncated, regular; surface very 

 smooth, pale waxen yellow, mostly covered with marbled and blushed 

 bright red and crimson; dots few, obscure, minute, gray; cavity 

 deep, acute, regular, slightly russeted; stem slender, long; basin 

 shallow, corrugated, narrow; calyx small, half open. Core closed, 

 meeting; tube conical; stamens median; seeds many, plump; flesh 

 yellow, tine-grained, juicy, crisp, rich, saccharine subacid, very good. 

 March, June. 



Smith Cider. Origin, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania; tree very vigorous, 

 straggling, spreading grower, an early and good bearer. 



Smith Cider. 



Fruit medium to large, varying from roundish oblate conical to 

 somewhat elongated, sometimes unequal ; surface smooth, pale yellow, 

 shaded with red, with indistinct bright crimson splashes; dots 

 few, distinct, gray, large; cavity deep, acute, narrow, russeted; 

 stem medium to long, slender; basin wide, shallow, sometimes cor- 

 rugated; calyx small, half open; segments long. Core open, clasping; 

 seeds many, plump, pointed; flesh whitish, tender, juicy, crisp, 

 aromatic, mild subacid, not rich, good. Late winter. 



