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REPORT ON THE 



No. 33 



ESSEX PENINSULA 



(Including Essex, Kent and Pelee Island). 

 J. L. Hilborn, Leamington. 



Dewey, St. John, New Prolific, Engle, Kalamazoo, Elberta, Banner, Golden Drop, 

 Lemon Free. 



J. Atkin & Son, Leamington. 



Dewey, St. Johns, New Prolific, Champion, Kalamazoo, Engle, Banner, Late Craw- 

 ford, Lemon Free, Smock, Salway. 



FOREST DISTRICT 



(Including the County of Lambton). 

 D. Johnson, Forest. 



For those parts of the county influenced by the lake: St. John, Fitzgerald, Late 

 Crawford, Engle, Kalamazoo, Elberta, Smock. 



DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES 



ALEXANDER. 



An early variety, grown in the Niagara district and in Essex County. It is a cling- 

 stone of poor quality for dessert purposes and poor also for cooking, so that, in compe- 

 tition with better varieties coming in at the same time from southern orchards, it sells 

 at a low price in our markets. 



ALEXANDER. 



ORIGIN: chance seedling, Mount Pulaski, 111., on farm of A. O. Alexander. 



TREE: vigorous; hardy; productive. 



FRUIT: medium; globular, sides unequal; color greenish, suffused with dark and 

 light red; suture broad; apex slightly sunken. 



FLESH: color, greenish white; texture, firm, juicy, half melting, clings to stone; 

 flavor, sweet and fairly good. 



QUALITY: dessert, poor; cooking, poor. 



VALUE: market, second class. 



SEASON: early August. 



