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yellow, shaded with a delicate crimson blush, and sprinkled 

 with green and greyish dots. Stalk varies in length and thick- 

 ness, inserted in a deep abrupt cavity. Calyx closed, set in a 

 deep, abrupt, corrugated basin. Flesh white, tender, moderately 

 juicy, with a pleasant, refreshing, sub-acid flavour, valuable for 

 culinary uses. Ripens the middle of August, and continues a 

 month or more. 



Summer Bellflower. 



Origin, farm of J. R. Comstock, Dutchess Co., N. Y. Tree 

 vigorous, upright, productive. 



Fruit medium or above, oval, inclining to conic. Skin 

 smooth, clear yellow, with rarely a faint orange blush on the 

 side of the sun. Stalk an inch long, stout at its insertion in a 

 shallow cavity. Calyx closed, with small reflexed segments, set 

 ,in a smooth, but slightly five-sided basin. Flesh white, fine 

 grained, tender, with an excellent rich, sub-acid flavour. Mid- 

 dle of August to middle of September. (Hort.) 



Summer Bellflower of Pennsylvania, 



Wm. G. Waring, of Boalsburg, Pa., informs us, is quite dis- 

 tinct from the above, and very much resembles Yellow Bell- 

 flower in shape and colour, but has a very wide and deep 

 cavity, and closed calyx. Flesh yellowish white, firm and fine 

 texture, not very juicy, with a brisk, agreeable, very pleasant 

 flavour, and decidedly the best of its season. Last of August 

 and first of September. (W. G. Waring.) 



Superb Sweet. 



Raised by Jacob Deane, Mansfield, Mass. Tree vigorous, pro- 

 ductive. 



Fruit rather large, roundish, pale yellow, much red in the 

 sun. Stalk long, inserted in a deep cavity. Calyx large, open, 

 basin broad. Flesh white, very tender, juicy, sweet, rich, high 

 flavoured. September, October. (Cole.) 



Superb. 



Origin, Franklin Co., North Carolina. Tree tolerably vigor- 

 ous and a prodigious bearer. 



Fruit medium or above, roundish, oblate, regular. Skin green, 

 rarely with a blush. Stalk of medium length, in a shallow 

 cavity. Calyx large and open. Flesh yellow, solid, slightly 

 coarse grained, rich, and particularly high flavoured. November 

 to March. This variety combines as many valuable properties 

 as any other. (G. W. Johnson MS.) 



