Leaves six and one-half inches long, one and one-half
inches wide, folded upward and curled downward, oval to
obovate-lanceolate, thick, leathery; upper surface smooth
becoming rugose at the midrib; lower surface pale green; apex
acuminate; margin finely and often doubly serrate, tipped
with reddish-brown glands; petiole three-eighths inch long,
glandless or with one to four small, globose, reddish-brown
glands variable in position.
Flower-buds half-hardy, conical to pointed, plump, pubescent,
free; blossoms appear in mid-season; flowers one and
three-sixteenths inches across, white at the center of the
petals changing to pink toward the margins, well distributed;
pedicels short, glabrous, green; calyx-tube reddish-green
at the base, greenish-yellow within, obconic, glabrous;
calyx-lobes acute, glabrous within, pubescent without; petals
oval, faintly notched near the base, tapering to narrow claws
of medium length tinged with red at the base; filaments
three-eighths inch long, equal to the petals in length; pistil
pubescent near the base, usually as long as the stamens.
Fruit matures late; two and five-eighths inches long, two
and eleven-sixteenths inches wide, roundish-cordate, with
unequal surfaces; cavity variable in depth and width, abrupt
or flaring, often with twig-mark across the cavity; suture
variable in depth, extending beyond the tip; apex roundish,
mamelon or mucronate, recurved; color greenish or creamy-white,
sometimes with a lively red blush, mottled and splashed with
darker and duller red; pubescence thick, coarse; skin tough,
adherent to the pulp; flesh white, stained with red near the
pit, juicy, stringy, tender, pleasantly flavored, sweet or
somewhat sprightly; good to very good in quality; stone free or
nearly so, one and one-half inches long, one and one-sixteenth
inches wide, oval to ovate, plump, with deeply grooved
surfaces; ventral suture deeply grooved along the edges,
strongly furrowed; dorsal suture deeply grooved.
LEMON FREE
=1.= Wickson _Cal. Fruits_ 313. 1889. =2.= _Am. Pom. Soc.
Cat._ 33. 1899. =3.= _Mich. Sta. Bul._ =169=:218. 1899. =4.=
Budd-Hansen _Am. Hort. Man._ =2=:349. 1903. =5.= Waugh _Am.
Peach Orch._ 204. 1913.
_Lemon._ =6.= _Rural N. Y._ =47=:131. 1888. =7.= _Am. Pom. Soc.
Cat._ 32. 1889. =8.= _Ont. Fr. Exp. Sta. Rpt._ =2=:59. 1895.
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