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long, containing forty-four cherries, weighed seven ounces, including the 

 wood and foliage, which weighed one ounce. 



3. English Morello. — Remarkably fine, nearly three inches in circum- 

 ference ; quality "best" for culinary purposes. 



4. Early and Late. — In size, form, color and quality, very similar to the 

 preceding. 



From Mr. Casper Hiller, Lancaster County — Very handsome specimens 

 of four varieties of cherries : — 



1. Conestoga. — This fine variety originated in Conestoga Township, 

 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Fruit very large ; obtuse heart-shaped, 

 slightly indented at the apex ; dark purple ; stem from an inch and three 

 quarters to two and a quarter long, slender, inserted in an open cavity ; 

 flesh purplish, firm ; flavor sugary and very pleasant ; quality " best." 



2. Black Tartarian. — Fine specimens of this delicious variety. 



3. Graffion. — Known also as the Amber of Coxe, the Yellow Spanish, 

 and the Bigarreau. Fair specimens. 



4. Ifliite Bigarreau. — Common in our market. Sometimes confounded 

 with the Graffion, from which it differs in being more regularly heart-shaped 

 and of a lighter color. 



From Alexander Parker, of this city — Four varieties of plums : — 



\. Seedling Plum. — Beautiful specimens, resembling the Mirabolan. 



Above medium, round, scarlet ; stem half an inch long, slender ; flesh 



greenish yellow, jjicy; flavor ordinary; quality "good" for the season; 



period of maturity last of June and beginning of July. 



.Another Seedliiig. — A few days later than the preceding, but in other 



respects very similar to it. 



3. Parker's Mammoth. — Very large, nearly six inches in circumference. 

 It closely resembles the Washington, with which it is probably identical. 



4. Bingham Plum. — Beautiful specimens. Large ; truncated oval ; green- 

 ish yellow, occasionally with delicate carmine dots on the exposed side; 

 suture on one side extending from the base to the apex ; stem three-quarters 

 of an inch long, by one-twelfth thick, inserted in a deep, narrow depression ; 

 stone adherent ; flesh yellowish, juicy ; flavor pleasant ; quality " very good." 



From Isaac B. Baxter — The Musch Musch .Apricot, and a plum imported 

 from France as the Royale Hative. The latter is not true to name, as the 

 color of the Royale Hative is purple. The specimens exhibited by Mr. 

 Baxter were large ; oval ; of a green color ; unadherent ; quality " very good." 



From Alan W. Corson, Montgomery County — A box of pears grown on 

 the premises of Mr. Schlater. Size medium ; long pyriform ; yellowish 

 green, and on the exposed side sometimes a fawn-colored cheek, with a few 

 red dots ; stem an inch long by one-eightli thick, inserted occasionally 

 somewhat obliquely and without depression ; calyx set in a superficial basin ; 

 seed small, black, often abortive ; flesh yellowish white, rather granular, 

 moderately juicy ; pleasant flavor ; quality " good." The variety is probably 

 the English Jargonelle, the Epargne of the French. 



From Thomas Hancock, Burlington, N. J. — Specimens of eight varieties 

 of pears. Edwards' Meadow, quality indifferent. Dearborn's Seedling, 

 ''good." Bloodgood, "very good." Manning's Elizabeth, "very good." 



