. Descriptive catalogue and price-list of the Glen St. Mary Nurseries : season of 1892-93. Nursery stock Florida Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. SI transversely ; color of skin reddish yellow; flesh very dark, shows black dots and white fibers when cut transversely: very seedy : quality very good, it being edible while still bard, and one of the earliest varieties to ripen ; tree vigorous and g 1 hearer. Okame.—Large, roundish oblate, always showing peculiar corrugated appear- ance at the stem end; somewhat four-sided, with well-defined quarter marks at apex : diameter two and three-eighth inches lo
. Descriptive catalogue and price-list of the Glen St. Mary Nurseries : season of 1892-93. Nursery stock Florida Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. SI transversely ; color of skin reddish yellow; flesh very dark, shows black dots and white fibers when cut transversely: very seedy : quality very good, it being edible while still bard, and one of the earliest varieties to ripen ; tree vigorous and g 1 hearer. Okame.—Large, roundish oblate, always showing peculiar corrugated appear- ance at the stem end; somewhat four-sided, with well-defined quarter marks at apex : diameter two and three-eighth inches longitudinally and three inches trans- versely; color of skin dark red, handsome and showy; flesh yellow, with but few seeds, rich, meaty, free from astringency ; quality fine: tree a good JAPAN PEKSIMMOX- HFAKUME. Costata.—Medium oblong, conical, pointer!, somewhat four-sided; diameter two and one-<iuarter inches longitudinally and two and three-eighth inches trans- versely ; color of skin salmon yellow ; flesh yellow, nearly seedless, astringent until ripe and then very fine ; one of the latest to ripen and a good keeper ; tree the most ornamental of all, it being a very upright rapid grower, with large, luxuriant foliage. We have also the following excellent varieties, which we offer at present, un- der numbers, until their names can be fully determined: Taber's No. 23.—Medium to large, oblate ; diameter, one and three-quarter inches longitudinally and two and one-half inches transversely ; color of skin rather a dark red with peculiar stipple marks; flesh dark colored, sweet and free from astringency, seedy ; quality excellent. Taber's No. 72.—Very large, roundish oblate, smooth and handsome; di- ameter, two and one-half inches longitudinally and three and one-eighth inches transversely; color of skin light red with occasional rings or marks of darker color; flesh yellow, with but little astringency and few seed ; early to ripen and of the best P
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