VARIOUS SPECIES OF FRUITS 169 



EASTER BEURRE. Large, yellowish green, somewhat russeted. Flesh 

 juicy, fine-grained, melting, very buttery, excellent when well-grown 

 and properly ripened. Does not mature well in Northern States and 

 Canada. Mid to late Winter. Does best as a dwarf. 



GRIS d'HiVER. Medium, greenish, russeted. Flesh greenish, very juicy, 

 melting, buttery, rich, sub-acid. Early Winter. 



HOWELL. Medium to large, light yellow often handsomely cheeked. 

 Flesh white, melting, buttery, rather rich, aromatic, inclined to be 

 variable. Tree sturdy grower and producer of very clean fruit. Season 

 mid to late Fall. 



JOSEPHINE DE MALINES. Medium, yellowish; flesh pale salmon towards 

 core, sweet, buttery, distinctive flavor. Tree best as a dwarf. Early 

 to Midwinter or later. 



LAWRENCE. Medium, lemon yellow. Flesh whitish, aromatic, rich, 

 very good. Late Fall and early Winter. Tree a moderate grower, 

 rather spreading, precocious, good cropper. Fruit best early Winter 

 variety. Easy to ripen. 



VICAR OF WINKFIELD. Large, pale yellow, or yellowish-green, sometimes 

 with dull, red cheek; flesh greenish or yellowish-white, buttery, juicy, 

 fair flavor, though sometimes rather astringent. Late Fall to Mid- 

 winter. Tree a straggly grower. Does well as dwarf. Very productive. 

 The fruit is specially valuable for cooking, almost never for dessert. 



WINTER NELIS. Small to medium, yellowish-green, russeted. Flesh 

 yellowish-white, fine-grained, very melting, buttery, rich, sweet, rather 

 winey, fragrant, excellent. Early Winter. Tree slender, straggly. 



PERSIMMON 



According to tradition there was once a young lady who sought 

 to reduce the size of her mouth by frequently repeating the words 

 "prunes and prisms," because these are such "puckery" words. If 

 she had accepted popular belief, however, she could have enjoyed a far 

 more puckery sensation by eating, or attempting to eat, immature 

 Persimmons. 



While it is a fact that Persimmons are astringent when unripe, it 

 is neither true that all must be frost-bitten to destroy this quality and 

 make them edible nor that frost is always effective in this respect. 

 There are varieties that ripen weeks or even months before the arrival 

 of the earliest frost and are bland and pleasant as soon as ripe; and 

 there are others which even after being frozen solid several times 

 continue to be "awful drawy." 



Two classes of Persimmons are grown in the United States 

 American and Japanese. The former, which includes few cultivated 

 varieties as yet, is common as a fence row tree in the Southeastern 

 States, and extends its range as far north as Connecticut and westward 

 to Kansas; the latter, varieties of which are planted for home and 

 market, is more tender, being doubtfully hardy north of Kentucky. 



Though the native species in the forest often reaches a height of 

 75 feet, in the fence rows it rarely exceeds 30 feet. In the home orchard, 



