Excerpt from Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue, 1898: Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Plants Early Richmond. Everywhere the most pop ular. Tree strong, thrifty grower, making a large, symmetrical head; fruit medium size; dark red, melting, juicy; sprightly acid flavor, and especially valuable for cooking pur poses; tree an early and abundant bearer. Season last of May and first of June. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.