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native of Massachnsetts, and is more largely cultivated for the 

 Boston market than any other sort. It bears most abundantly 

 with us, and we have had the satisfaction of raising larger, more 

 beautiful, and highly flavoured specimens here, than we ever 

 saw in its native region. The Baldwin, in flavour and general 

 characteristics, evidently belongs to the same family as our 

 Esopus Spitzenburgh, and deserves its extensive popularity. 



Fruit large, roundish, and narrowing a little to the eye. Skin 

 yellow in the shade, but nearly covered and striped with crimson, » 

 red, and orange, in the sun ; dotted with a few large russet dots, 

 and with radiating streaks of russet about the stalk. Calyx 

 closed, and set in a rather narrow, plaited basin. Stalk half to 

 three fourths of an inch long, rather slender for so large a fruit, 

 planted in an even, moderately deep cavity. Flesh yellowish 

 white, crisp, with that agreeable mingling of the saccharine and 

 acid which constitutes a rich, high flavour. The tree is a vigo- 

 rous, upright grower, and bears most abundantly. Ripe from 

 "Vovember to March, but with us is in perfection in January. 





Baldwin. 



Belle-Fleur, Yellow. Thomp. 



Belle-Fleur. Coxe. Floy. Ken. 

 Yellow Bellflower, of most nurseries. 



The Yellow Belle-Fleur is a large, handsome, and excellent 



