This variety keeps well, lasting until May. Not yet sufficiently tested in the North.
Campfield.
NEWARK SWEETING.
Fig. 52.—CAMPFIELD.
Tree vigorous, spreading, productive. This fruit is especially valuable for cider, but it may be used also in the kitchen; being a long keeper and often beautifully colored at maturity in the spring, it is often exposed on the fruit-stands, where it attracts purchasers by the great beauty of its brilliant colors.
Fruit always fair, but its figure is variable, being sometimes globular or conical. The characteristic form is round-oblate, regular; Size medium.
Surface very smooth, of a dull green, often suffused with a faint blush on the exposed side; but at maturity, bright lemon yellow, shaded with carmine; Dots minute, gray and indented.
Basin shallow, regular; Eye rather large, closed; Segments of medium length.
Cavity regular, with medium width and depth; Stem medium, rather stout.