. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. MISSOURI MAMMOTH SMYRNA 109 and, all in all, the tnie Meech is a better variety than the true Champion. It would be difficult indeed to make sure now of getting the variety true to name. Meech seems to have been in cultivation in Vmeland, New Jersey, about the middle of the nineteenth century. It was not introduced until some years later, when, coming into the hands of Rev. W. W. Meech, it was disseminated in 1883. Tree very vigorous, hardy, productive and compara- tively free from blight ; comes in bearing early. Leaves large, broad in propo
. Cyclopedia of hardy fruits. Fruit; Fruit-culture. MISSOURI MAMMOTH SMYRNA 109 and, all in all, the tnie Meech is a better variety than the true Champion. It would be difficult indeed to make sure now of getting the variety true to name. Meech seems to have been in cultivation in Vmeland, New Jersey, about the middle of the nineteenth century. It was not introduced until some years later, when, coming into the hands of Rev. W. W. Meech, it was disseminated in 1883. Tree very vigorous, hardy, productive and compara- tively free from blight ; comes in bearing early. Leaves large, broad in proportion to their length and luxuriantly green. Flowers very large and attractive. Fruit mid- season, very large, pear-shaped or obscurely pyriforra, smooth or occasionally slightly ribbed ; stem set obliquely in a slight depression; basin rather narrow, smootli or somewhat furrowed; color bright golden-yellow; very pubescent but becoming smooth at maturity; fiesh yellowish-white, juicy, fine-grained, highly aromatic, tart; quality good. MISSOURI MAMMOTH. About 1875, Missouri Mammoth received the commenda- tion of the Missouri Valley Horticultural So- ciety, and was rather largely planted in Mis- souri and neighboring states. Its cultivation seems never to have spread throughout the East, but occasionally a plant of the variety is to be found in New York, in which state it ripens with the Orange, but is not so de- sirable as that variety. In Missouri, the tree was thought to be healthier, more vigorous, and more productive, and to come in bearing earlier than the Orange. The variety seems to have originated in Massachusetts, nearly a century ago, thence it was carried to Ohio, thence to Missouri, where it was introduced soon after the Civil War. Fruit ripens with the Orange or a little earlier, very large, round or oblong-ovate, ribbed but with the sur- face smooth; calyx set in a shallow, wrinkled basin; stem short, inserted in a small, moderately deep cavity ; core small; color
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