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GAKDENING FOR THE SOUTH. 



sugary, and refreshing. In Georgia it has kept until 

 November. Tree fruitful and healthy. 



Columbia. — Fruit large, oblong-obovate, or pyriform, 

 often simply obovate, broadest in the middle; skin 

 smooth, pale green, turning yellowish when ripe, with a 



Fig. 241— Columbia. 



soft brown cheek, dotted with russet, with a little russet 

 also about the stalk and calyx; stalk about an inch long, 

 rather stout, slightly curved; calyx small, partly closed, 

 in a shallow basin; flesh white, fine-grained, melting and 

 abundant in rich, sugary juice. Ripens in Georgia from 

 the 15th of August to the last of September, and is not 



