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DESCRIPTIONS 
100. PECK’S PLEASANT. 
.'U. Mi. 
Fruit above the medium 
size; circular, elongated 
and narrow at the apex, 
tapering from the base. 
Color green, enlivened 
with a brown cheek. 
Skin variegated with 
dots. Stem very short, 
deeply inserted in a wide 
depression. Calyx rather 
large in a medium sized 
depression. Calyx tube 
closed. Flesh yellowish, 
juicy, fine, subacid. 
The apple, in the esti¬ 
mation of the writer, is 
among the best early win 
ter fruit. Exhibited in N. 
York, 1848. 
101. VICTORIOUS REINETT. Plate 49. Fig. 5 7. 
Fruit of the medium size, rather 
depressed, fair, subcircular, ta¬ 
pering from the middle in a 
circular sweep. Stem short, 
rather thick, below the base. 
Depression deep. Calyx small, 
depression shallow. Color pale 
yellow, dotted, and more on 
the sunny side. Flesh yellow¬ 
ish white, firm, subacid. A 
very good apple, and worthy 
of cultivation, but rather below 
the first rated fruit. 
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