This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V20", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
In my short note, at foot of page 240, August number, which you kindly copy, the second word should be send instead of " saw;" and at the top of next page (241) second line, the word " kind" should be pit. The sentence will then read: " You will notice the pit is very small, exceeding even Shannon in this respect." The fruit itself is of medium size. I observe that another competent authority, " Notes from the Pines " [American Ayriculiurist, August, 1878, page "02, 1st column), is also well pleased with the fruit, considering it superior to "Early Richmond, " than which it is "a week or ten days earlier." His young trees, received several years ago from "a gentleman in Tennessee " and not " six or eight feet high, were fairly filled " with the fruit. The success of tin's fine Morello in Eastern New York, Central Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, is certainly noteworthy.
 
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