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HUBBARDSTON NONSUCH — Large; striped yellow and red; tender, 
juicy and fine; strong grower and good bearer. November to May. 
HYDE’S KING — Large to very large; handsome, yellow green; good qual- 
ity; a remarkable keeper; time of keeping all the year round. 
IOWA BLUSH — Medium or less; finest tart flavor; tree extremely vigor- 
ous and hardy; most excellent variety. November to February. 
ISHAM SWEET — Large; dark red; juicier than its parent, Baily Sweet, 
and a better keeper. 
JONATHAN — Fruit medium, roundish; skin yellow, nearly covered with 
dark or lively red; fine grained, very tender and finely flavored; tree slender 
and spreading, with light colored shoots. November to April. 
LADY — A beautiful little dessert fruit; quite small, flat, regularly formed; 
skin pale yellow or lemon color, with a beautiful red cheek; flesh crisp, 
juicy and excellent; bears abundantly. December to May. 
LAWVER — (Delaware Red Winter) — Large, roundish, flat; mild sub-acid; 
very heavy and hard; beautiful dark red; valuable as a late market sort; 
tree a vigorous grower and very hardy; bears well. December to May. 
LONGFIELD — A Russian variety, imported some years since. Tree a free 
upright grower, early and abundant bearer. Medium to large; yellow, with 
a blush on the sunny side like Maiden’s Blush rich, sprightly, sub-acid quality 
as good as Fameuse and something like it. December to March. 
MANN — Fruit medium to large; roundish, oblate, nearly regular; skin 
deep yellow when fully ripe; flesh yellowish, half fine, half tender, juicy, 
mild, pleasant, sub-acid; the tree grows straight and symmetrical and makes 
a large tree in the orchard; it is an early and annual bearer. 
MARSHALL, OR RED BELLEFLEUR — Very large deep crimson shape.) 
like Yellow Bellefleur; of fine quality tree productive originated near Napa 
by J. L. Marshall, being a cross between Yellow Bellefleur and Red June. 
One of the most valuable market varieties. 
MclNTOSH RED — An exceedingly valuable, hardy Canadian sort, medium 
size; nearly covered with dark red; flesh white, fine, very tender, juicy and 
refreshing; a good annual bearer of fair, handsome fruit; resembles the 
Fameuse, but larger and more ha.rdy, and fully equal in quality to this stand- 
ard sort. November to February. 
MAMMOTH BLACK TWIG (Paragon) — A Tennessee seedling. The origi- 
nal tree, over 50 years old, is still vigorous and bearing, though broken by 
storms; thought to be a cross between Winesap and Red Limber Twig; com- 
bines the good qualities of both; excells Winesap in nearly every important 
point; a better and much stronger grower, hardier and the fruit much larger; 
color even a darker red; flesh firmer, flavor milder, but fully equal; re- 
markably heavy and a long keeper. 
MINKLER — Fruit medium; roundish, oblate, slightly conical; pale green 
