. Elliott's fruit book;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. [from old catalog]. WORTHY GENERAL CULTIVATION. 115 Fruit, medium; form, roundish, flattened, slightly ribbed at base; color, yellow ground, mostly covered with deep glossy red, with stripes and splashes of light red, and marked with irregular light russet specks ; stem, slender ; cavity, wide, deep ; calyx, small; 6a- sin, broad and open; flesh, yellowish white, fine grained, crisp, juicy, sprightly, vinous, sub-acid ; core, small, oblong ovate ; seeds, light brown, ovate pyriform. Season, November to March, but will keep to May. Westfield Seek-n
. Elliott's fruit book;. Fruit-culture; Fruit. [from old catalog]. WORTHY GENERAL CULTIVATION. 115 Fruit, medium; form, roundish, flattened, slightly ribbed at base; color, yellow ground, mostly covered with deep glossy red, with stripes and splashes of light red, and marked with irregular light russet specks ; stem, slender ; cavity, wide, deep ; calyx, small; 6a- sin, broad and open; flesh, yellowish white, fine grained, crisp, juicy, sprightly, vinous, sub-acid ; core, small, oblong ovate ; seeds, light brown, ovate pyriform. Season, November to March, but will keep to May. Westfield Seek-no-further. Connecticut Seek-no-further, | Seek-no-further. Red Winter Pearmain, of An old variety from Connecticut. For all qualities of tree and fruit has no superior. Very popular in its native State, all South and West. Grown in rich loamy alluvial soils of the South, it is much russeted, and about the stem the russet has appearance of rich bronze; progressing northward, it gradually loses its russet, until on light sandy soils in Michigan, it becomes a pale yellow ground, with stripes and splashes of clear red and minute dots. Fruit, medium ; form, regular, roundish, conical—broad at base ; color, light yellow ground, the sunny side striped and splashed with red, small russet dots shaded around with light russet yellow; often considerable russet about both stem, and calyx ; stem, long, slender ; cavity, open, regular; calyx, usually small, closed, sometimes open,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Elliott, Franklin Reuben, 1817-1878. [from old catalog]. New York, C. M. Saxton
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