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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST 
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The fruit is of medium size, roundish turbinate, with a short neck. 
The colour is pale straw yellow; the skin rugose, thin, and cracking in 
several places lengthways as it ripens. The flesh is white, or pale yellow, 
tinged with rose, soft, juicy, rich, and pleasant; the seeds large, slightly 
tinged with rosy pink; the eye small and open, showing the pink tips of 
the seeds in the interior; and the stalk short. 
When well ripened the fruit is of excellent quality, and slightly per¬ 
fumed. It is a first-bearing variety, and exceedingly well suited for pot 
cultivation, in which condition it will ripen-off two or three crops in the 
season. Its great merits, however, lie in its earliness, hardiness, and suit¬ 
ability for open-air cultivation. It is nearly a month earlier than the 
Brown Turkey—a fact which should not be lost sight of in selections of 
