114 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. 



Fruit medium, regular, roundish, slightly conical, sometimes ob- 

 scurely ribbed, truncated; surface polished, yellowish white, almost 

 wholly covered with light and dark splashes and crimson and red, 

 often overlaid with thin bloom, a showy fruit; cavity large, deep, 

 acute, with thin stellate russet; stem long, slender, curved; basin 

 abrupt, narrow, wavy, ribbed; calyx half open; segments erect con- 

 vergent. Core closed; cells obovate, entire; tube funnel-shaped, 



Late Strawberry. 



narrow, open to core; stamens marginal; seeds very large, roundish, 

 flattened; flesh yellowish white, tender, juicy, pleasant, vinous, 

 subacid, very good. October, December. 



Lawver. Origin uncertain, introduced by Geo. S. Park, of Park- 

 ville, Missouri; tree spreading, an early and annual bearer. 



Fruit above medium, roundish oblate, irregular, broadly ribbed; 

 surface polished, greenish yellow, almost wholly covered with dark 

 bright red, with obscure dark crimson splashes; dots few, yellow and 

 russet, minute; cavity deep, regular, with radiate russet; stem medium 

 to long, slender; basin nearly flat, narrow, wrinkled; calyx closed, 

 segments connivent. Core small, half open, outline indistinct; cells 

 round, slit; tube funnel-shaped; stamens marginal; flesh firm, yel- 



