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obscure the ground colour. Flesh yel- j of uncommonly beautiful appearance, 

 low, rich and aromatic. Stem long, It is certainly a superior dessert fruit ; 

 deeply planted, llipe in August, but j its sprightly aroma is agreeable to most 

 fit for cooking in July. Coxe describes i palates, and makes it a popular apple in 

 it as an apple of the finest quality, and 1 the Philadelphia market. 



Fig. 1.— (P. 43.) 



Summer Pearmain. Coxe. (Fig. 2.) 

 This is unquestionably the finest apple 

 of its season, possessing more of the 

 character of the pear than an ordinary 

 apple ; its appearance is by no means 

 prepossessing, and those who look to 

 exteriors only would pass it by unno- 

 ticed. The colour is usually dull red, 

 slightly streaked and spotted, occasion- 

 ally in the sun of a brighter hue. Coxe 

 says it has proved well adapted to light 

 lands, and correctly describes it as 

 singularly tender, bursting from its own 

 weight, when falling. The outline is 

 oblong, uniformly regular; stem and 

 calyx deeply seated ; ripe in August and 

 September. 



WooLMAN's Harvest. {Striped 

 Harvest.) (Fig. 3.) This apple is 

 known in New Jersey as above ; its ori- 

 gin is obscure, nor have we found it 

 described by any American authority. 



The size is much below medium, weigh- 

 ing scarcely two ounces. Ground colour 

 a delicate whitish yellow, beautifully 

 streaked and pencilled with bright red 

 of different depths, giving it rather an 

 artificial aspect, as though an artist had 

 coloured it to suit his fancy; flesh white, 

 crisp and tender, juicy, but not rich: — 

 its early maturity commends it to notice; 

 ripe in July. 



Maiden's Blush. Coxe. (Fig. 4.) 

 There is not, perhaps, a more popular 

 summer apple in the Philadelphia mar- 

 ket than this; it ripens in August, and 

 is in fruitful seasons abundant until the 

 first of October. The size is above me- 

 dium ; skin smooth, yellow, with a lively 

 carmine cheek ; the general outline is 

 flattened. Flesh white, tender, admi- 

 rably adapted to drying. Stem short, 

 and both it and the eye seated in a 

 deep cavity. The habit of the tree is 



