This fruit has been generally planted in laying out orchards in this State for twenty or thirty years past. The earlv and summer varieties succeed well: the trees crow viarorouslv and the fruit without defect, and well flavored. The late or winter kinds, are apt to rot and fall from the tree before maturity. I cultivate about one hundred varieties, and have only time and space to notice a variety which I think surpasses all others in size and flavor. It is the.

White Spanish Rieinette

"My trees were planted twenty-five years ago, are yet healthy and vigorous, and bear every year heavy crops of this excellent fruit. This variety is the Camaesar of Spain, where it is said to have been cultivated from the highest antiquity. The early Spanish colonists introduced it to this region of our State. It has become thoroughly acclimated with us. Fruit large, some specimens monstrous in size; roundish oblong in shape; skin smoth, oily, yellowish green on shaded side to clear yellow; on some specimens a blush of brownish red next the sun; flesh yellowish, crisp, tender, with a sugary and highly aromatic juice; ripens in August and is in eating a month.