Tree of strong upright growth, a profuse and annual bearer.
Fruit small, regular, roundish-oblate; Surface very smooth, polished, greenish-yellow, blushed with brownish-red; Flesh whitish, breaking, juicy, mild sub-acid; remarkable for its keeping qualities, remaining sound until the second season, and has been shown in May after having been kept over two winters.
Fulton.
Fig. 72.—FULTON.
Origin, Canton County, Illinois. Tree large, vigorous, productive, annual bearer.
Fruit large, globular-oblate, often oblique or unsymmetrical; Surface smooth, greenish-yellow, with a carmine blush; Dots minute, indented.
Basin abrupt, deep, folded; Eye medium to large, open.
Cavity deep, narrow or acute, green and brown; Stem rather long and slender.
Core small, round, clasping; Seeds numerous, small, short and plump; Flesh yellow, tender, line grained, juicy; flavor sub-acid and aromatic; First quality for table; In November and December. Our Illinois orchardists do not commend it so highly as when first introduced; not fully satisfactory where planted in Ohio on limestone clays.