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DESCRIPTIONS 



100. PECK'S PLEASANT. 



i;-. ^6. 



Fruit above the niediuin 

 size; circular, elongated 

 and narrow at the apex, 

 tapering from the base. 

 Color green, enlivened 

 with a brown cheek. 

 Skin variegated with 

 dots. Stem very short, 

 deeply inserted in a wide 

 depression. Calyx rather 

 large in a medium sized 

 depression. Calyx tube 

 closed. Flesh yellowish, 

 juicy, fine, subacid. 

 The apple, in the esti- 

 mation of the writer, is 

 among the best early win 

 ter fruit. Exhibited in N. 

 York, 1848. 



101. VICTORIOUS REINETT. Plate 49. 



Fig. 57. 



Fruit of the medium size, rather 

 depressed, fair, subcircular, ta- 

 pering from the middle in a 

 circular sweep. Stem short, 

 rather thick, below the base. 

 Depression deep. Calyx small, 

 depression shallow. Color pale 

 yellow, dotted, and more on 

 the sunny side. Flesh yellow- 

 ish white, firm, subacid. A 

 very good apple, and worthy 

 of cultivation, but rather below 

 the first rated fruit. 



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