The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . x rather |=-small, spreading, and paitially reflexed; scapes strong,upright, rather compact, elevating the fruit from theground, and as long as the leaf-stalks, producing fromeight to sixteen berries.; peduncles short and stout. Feuit.—^\ery large, roundish, or very slightly conical, always regiilaiin form, measuring from fom to four and a half inches in cucumference :Color, deep rich sliining red : Seeds, yeUow, but very shghtly imbedded :Flesh, pale


The fruits of America : containing richly colored figures, and full description of all the choicest varieties cultivated in the United States . x rather |=-small, spreading, and paitially reflexed; scapes strong,upright, rather compact, elevating the fruit from theground, and as long as the leaf-stalks, producing fromeight to sixteen berries.; peduncles short and stout. Feuit.—^\ery large, roundish, or very slightly conical, always regiilaiin form, measuring from fom to four and a half inches in cucumference :Color, deep rich sliining red : Seeds, yeUow, but very shghtly imbedded :Flesh, pale scarlet, fine grained, buttery, and sohd, veiy juicy, sweet,and rich, with a brisk, high, and dehcious flavor. PiiPE about a week before Hoveys Seedhng, at the same time as theOld Scaiiet or Eaiiy Yuginia, and continues a long time in bearing. [28].


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