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SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. 



Fruit small to medium, conical, truncated, regular; surface very 

 smooth, pale ^^-axen yellow, mostly covered with marbled and blushed 

 bright red and crimson; dots few, obscure, minute, gray; cavity 

 deep, acute, regular, slightly russeted; stem slender, long; basin 

 shallow, corrugated, narrow; calyx small, half open. Core closed,. 

 meeting; tube conical; stamens median; seeds many, plump; flesh 

 yellow, fine-grained, juicy, crisp, rich, saccharine subacid, very good. 

 March, June. 



Smith Cw/er.— Origin, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania; tree very vigorous, 

 straggling, spreading grower, an early and good bearer. 



Smith Cider. 



Fruit metlium to large, varying from roundish oblate conical tc 

 somewhat elongated, sometimes imequal; surface smooth, pale yellow, 

 shaded ^s'ith red, with indistinct bright crimson splashes; dots 

 few, distinct, ,nray, large; cavity deep, acute, narrow, rus.seted; 

 stem medium to long, slender; basin wide, shallow, sometimes cor- 

 rugated; caly.x small, half open; segnients long. Core open, clasping; 

 seeds many, plump, pointed; flesh whitish, tender, juicy, crisp, 

 aromatic, mild subacid, not rich, good. Late winter. 



