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SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. 



Best of All. — Medium to large, round; color rich red. Flesh firm, 

 meaty, and Ijest in quality. Said l>y F. \. Munson, the originator, to lie 

 a seedling of Miner crosf^ed with pollen of Abundance. Te.xas. 



Blaclc Hawk. — Very large for the class, oval; color deep red in 

 the sun, and paler on shaded side; suture distinct, and on the suture 

 side the surface is slightly more convex, giving an irregular appearance 

 in form. Flesh yellow, tender, excellent in quality; freestone. 

 Americana. Iowa. 



Brittlewood. — Large, roundish oval; color dark red, with mottling 

 of varied shades; bloom grayisli and quite heavy, with numerous 

 small dots; stem short, inserted in shallow cavity. Flesh firm, meaty, 

 good; cling. One of the largest of the Americana varieties. Kebrasl<a. 

 Brunswick. — Medium, roundish oval; color dark red on yellowish 

 ground, which is exposed at pointed apex. Flesh yellow, meaty, 

 sweet. A month later than Wildgoose. Angustifolia. 



Cheney. — Large, roimdish olalong, often oblique and with unecn'.al 

 sides; color dull mottled red on greenish yellow groimd; bloom blue; 

 stem slender, usually ciu'ved, and inserted 

 in small shallow cavity. Flesh yellow, quite 

 firm; cjuality very good. Season, middle of 

 August; clingstone. Quite subject on drift 

 soil of the West to plum ]>ocket, but valuable 

 in many sections. Americana, ^^'isconsin. 



Clark. — Medium, roundish, irregular; color 

 bright red, \\\t[\ numerous ilots and bluish 

 bloom; stem .short, in broad medium deep 

 cavity. Flesh yellow; quality good; used as 

 a poUen-liearer for other Chicasa varieties. 

 Angustifolia. 



Clifford. — Large, pyriform ; color red ; l)loom 

 conspicuous. Flesh yellow, rpiite meaty, with 

 Season, a week earlier than Wildgoose. A Texas 

 variety not mucli tested as yet farther north. Jlortuiana. 



Comfort. — \Cry large, roundish, truncated, enlarged somewhat 

 toward t!ie a)iex; color dark red, with ('(insiderabli' l)l(ioin; skin thick. 

 I'lesli quite aeid; quality fair. Season, S(^pten)ber. Americana. 

 Iowa. 



Compass. — A liylirid, fii'iginated under cultivation liy II. Kmidson, 

 of [Minnesota, from seed of Sand Cherry [PnitiUK Biasci/i) peiUinated 



Cheney. 



pineai.iple flavor. 



