FOR AMATEUR CULTURE. 

 LEWIS. 



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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 va- 

 riety, but requires rich deep soil, or its immense crops exhaust too rap- 

 idly, causing the fruit to be quite small and insipid. Fruit, below medium, 

 roundish obovate, obtuse at stem ; color, dark, becoming pale green with 

 many russet specks ; stem, long, slender, shallow depression ; calyx, 

 segments, broad in divisions ; basin, almost obscure ; core, above 



medium for size of fruit; seeds, large, ovate; flesh, yellowish white, 

 rather coarse, melting, juicy. Season, November to February. 



LEE'S SEEDLING. 



American. Native of Salem, Mass. Fruit, medium, roundish oval, 

 greenish russet, brown in sun ; stem, short ; calyx, open ; core, large ; 

 flesh, white, coarse, juicy, " good." September. 



