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is much lessened by its unproductiveness. It does not strike 

 readily from cuttings. 



Rea.* (Rea's Mammoth, Rea's Seedling.) Fruit resembles the 

 Orange, but from one-third to one-half larger, and of excellent 

 quality. Tree a very strong grower, with large dark foliage. 

 Early. Origin, Coxsackie, N. Y. 



Van Deman. Above medium, truncated oval, greenish-yellow, 

 sub-acid ; prolific, good. 



Wist. (Wist' s Mammoth.) Verj' large, round, yellow, fine flavor, 

 A California seedling of the Orange Quince. 



