MOST GENERALLY ESTEEMED. 



95 



erect ; basin, open, regular, not deep j flesh, yellow, tender, slightly sweet, 

 rich, aromatic; core, small ; seeds, few, ovate pointed. December to 



rich, aromatic ; 

 February. 



NORTHERN SPY. 



American. Native of East Bloomfield, N. Y. While the quality of 

 this variety secures it a place among first class fruit, it cannot be con- 

 sidered a profitable variety until the trees have acquired at least twenty 

 years of age, as it is tardy in coming into bearing. It is of thrifty, vigor- 

 ous growth, requiring a rich soil, high state of cultivation, and as an 

 orchard tree, severe thinning out of the tops, as it inclines to make an 

 upright, close head ; young shoots, stout, dark, spotted : blooms late, often 

 escaping late frosts in Spring. 



Fruit, medium to large ; form, roundish conical, sometimes ribbed j skin, 

 thin and tender ; color, light yellow, mostly overspread with light red, 

 striped and slashed with streaks of carmine red, and. when first gathered, 

 covered with a fine bloom; stem, slender, projecting about even with the 

 surface ; cavity, open, wide, deep ; calyx, small, closed ; basin, open, regu- 

 lar, other than the furrows produced by ribs of the fruit not deep, but 

 rather abrupt; flesh, yellowish white, very tender, crisp, juicy, sprightly ; 

 core, large, capsules open ; seeds, abundant, many of them triangular ovate 

 pointed. January to April. South, it will probably become an early 

 Winter variety. 



