114 Catalogue of Varieties. 
PRINCESS oF Wa ss (Knight). Large, round, oval or flattened, 
bright red; seeds prominent; flesh rosy white, juicy, sweet, 
and perfumed. Vigorous, forces well, and extremely early. 
*Princess Royat (Ingram). Uniform, obtusely scarlet, dark 
crimson; flesh firm, highly perfumed, and richly flavored. Has 
proved a good bearer in this country. Pistillate. (?) Fig. in 
Hort. XIII. 467. 
PRINCESSE ROYALE (Pelvilain). Seedling of the Keens’s Seed- 
ling, that from Keens’s Imperial, and the latter from the White 
Carolina. Obtained at Meudon, in France, about 1846, and in 
1859 about twelve hundred acres were cultivated for the Paris — 
market. Fruit very large, regularly oval, very bright red; 
flesh rosy, firrn, with a central cavity, and filled with an acid 
and not highly flavored juice. A favorite abroad; but Gloede © 
remarks that it should be replaced by better kinds. Fig. in Jar. 
Mus. II. and Alb. de Pomol. IV. p. 78. 
Princess Roya oF ENGLAND (Cuthill). Medium size, light 
color; flesh lemon color, fine flavored. Productive. 
Prince’s IMPERIAL SCARLET (Prince). Fruit large, light scar- 
let, and of excellent flavor. Pistillate. Obtusely conical, firm 
fleshed, juicy, and pleasant, according to another authority. 
Fig. in Hort. XIV. 419. : 
PRISCILLA. 
PrRoFusE ScaRLeT. Medium, scarlet, productive. 
* PRoFuUSION (Burr). Medium or small; rich and sweet; a pro- 
digious bearer. Pistillate. 
Procres (De Jonghe). Fruit large, rounded or flattened, 
squared at the end, deep purple red; seeds prominent; flesh 
rosy white, firm, sweet, and brisk. Early. 
Prouiric. Large, conical, light glossy scarlet, rich flavor, unpro- 
ductive. English. (Downing.) 
Protiric Haursors. (Syn. Double Bearing Hautbois, Musk, 
Regent's, Hermaphrodite, Dwarf, Sacombe, Sir Foseph Banks's, 
Spring Grove, and probably others.) Large, obtusely conical, 
dark, but not so dark as the Black Hautbois; seeds slightly 
imbedded; flesh solid, greenish, and high flavored. The best 
of its class, and sometimes gives a second crop. Fig. in Pom. 
Mag. I. 31. 
Prouiric Iowa (Prince). Described by the originator as large, 
conical, bright scarlet, and productive. 
PROLIFIC ORANGE. (See ORANGE PROLIFIC.) 
