256 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. 



Flesh yellowish, coarse, melting, juicy, quite vinous, but musky in 

 ilavor, good to very good. Popular in Xew England. Massachusetts. 



McLaughlin. 



Mongolian (MongoUnn Siuni:). — Large, pyriform, inclined to 

 ridging toward the apex; color greenish yellow with blushed cheek, 

 and many russet dots; stalk from one to one and one-halt inches 

 long, stout, set in broad shallow cavity, raised on one side, giving the 

 stem a decided inclination: liasin quite deep, ridired, corrugated. 

 A\'hen ripened indoors the Hesh is tender, melting, juicy, good. It is 

 the best in quality of the oriental \arieties yet tested. Fruit usually 

 in clustei's. Iowa. 



Mount Vernon. — "Medium to large, rounili-^h, obtuse iiyriform; 

 color yellowish, netted, and nearly covered with light yelhiwi.-h 



