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SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. 



Fruit medium, regular, roundish, sliglitly conical, sometimes ob- 

 scurely ribbed, truncated; surface polished, yellowish white, almost 

 wholh' covered witli light and dark splashes and crimson and red, 

 often overlaid with thin bloom, a showy fruit; cavity large, deep, 

 acute, with thin stellate russet; stem long, slender, curved; basin 

 abrupt, narrow, wavy, ribbed; calyx half open; segments erect con- 

 vergent. Core closed; cells obovate, entire; tube funnel-shaped, 



Late StraT\-berry. 



narrow, open to core; stamens marginal; seeds very large, roundish, 

 flattened; flesh yellowish white, tender, juicy, jileasant, vinous, 

 suiaacid, very good. Octoljer, Deceml)er. 



Lawyer. — Origin uncertain, introduced l)y Cleo. S. Park, of Park- 

 viUe, Missouri; tree spreading, an early and annual l)earer. 



Fruit above niediiun, roundish oblate, irregular, broadly ribbed; 

 surface polislied, greenish yellow, almost \^-holly covered ^\■ith dark 

 bright red, with obscure dark crimson splashes; dots few, yellow and 

 russet, minute; cavity deep, regular, with radiate russet ; stem medium 

 to long, slender; basin nearly flat, narrow, wrinkled; calyx closed, 

 segments connivent. Core small, half open, outline indistinct; cells 

 round, slit; tube funnel-shaped; stamens marginal; flesh firm vol- 



