Pennock.
PENNOCK'S RED WINTER—ROMANITE—BIG ROMANITE.
This fruit, of Pennsylvania origin, is not introduced into this collection on account of its excellence, but because it is so universally cultivated in nearly all parts of the country.
Tree vigorous, large, spreading, very productive, bearing some fruit every year.
Fruit large to very large, form variable, but characteristically it is conic-oblate, often unequal, and lop-sided; Surface greenish-yellow, covered with mixed and striped red; Dots large, irregular and round, gray.
Basin wide, rather deep, uneven or wavy; Eye large, open.
Cavity wide, deep, regular; Stem short.
Core irregular, closed, meeting the eye; Seeds numerous, angular, plump; Flesh yellow, breaking, coarse-grained; Flavor sub-acid, poor; third quality; for cooking and market only; Season December; very much disposed to bitter rot.
Pennsylvania Vandervere.
VANDERVERE (Coxe and Downing)—LITTLE VANDERVERE—GRAY VANDERVERE—STAALCUBS, ETC.