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Native of Roxbury, Mass. It is a hardy tree, vigorous, spreading, rather 

 drooping as it grows old, always bears, and fruit always regular and even 

 in size. If well ripened, it is a fine, delicious fruit, otherwise not more 

 than second quality. It is profitable as a standard orchard variety, but re- 

 quires rich deep soil, or its immense crops exhaust too rapidly, causing the 

 fruit to be quite small and insipid. Fruit, below medium, roundish ob- 

 ovate, obtuse at stem ; color, dark, becoming pale green with many russet 

 specks ; stem, long, slender, shallow depression ; calyx, large ; segments, 

 broad, in divisions ; basin, almost obscure ; core, above medium for size of 

 fruit; seeds, large, ovate; Jlesh, yellowish white, rather coarse, melting, 

 juicy. November to February. 



ELIZABETH. (Manning's.) 



Elizabeth Van Mons, | Tan Mons No. 154. 



Foreign. Received under number, and named by the elder Manning : 

 young wood, reddish brown. Fruit, small, obovate rounded, lemon yellow', 

 red in sun. slight traces of russet ; calyx, small, open ; core, large ; 

 yellowish white, melting, sugary, juicy; " very good." Last August. 



