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TREE. 



Tree moderately vigorous, dwarfish with short, moderately stout, crooked 

 branches. Form rather flat, spreading. Twigs short, straight, stout, with 

 large terminal buds; internodes short. Bark dark brown, lightly streaked 

 with scarf-skin ; pubescent. Lenticels scattering, medium size, oblong, slightly 

 raised. Buds medium size, plump, acute, free, slightly pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit small to medium, uniform in size and shape. Form oblate conic to 

 conic, somewhat ribbed, rather symmetrical. Stem medium to long, rather 

 slender to moderately thick. Cavity acute, shallow to medium in depth, rather 

 broad, symmetrical, sometimes thinly russeted. Calyx medium size, closed 

 or slightly open. Basin small to medium, usually shallow, medium in width 

 or rather narrow, somewhat abrupt, smooth or slightly wrinkled. 



Skin thin, tender, smooth, pale greenish-yellow, irregularly and obscurely 

 striped and splashed with dull, dark red, in highly colored specimens becom- 

 ing deeply blushed on the exposed cheek. Dots russet and greenish or nearly 

 white. 



Calyx tube medium in length, rather wide, broadly conical. Stamens median 

 or basal. 



Core medium to rather small, axile; cells slightly open or closed; core 

 lines clasping. Carpels broadly obcordate to elliptical, decidedly concave. 

 Seeds small to medium, rather wide, short, obtuse to acute. 



Flesh tinged with yellow, fine, crisp, very tender, very juicy, mild subacid, 

 very good to best. 



Season August and September. 



EARLY PENNOCK. 



REFERENCES, i. Humrickhouse, Mag. Hort., 12 1472. 1846. fig. 2. Cole, 

 1849:104. 3. Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 3:14. 1851. 4. Barry, 1851:332. 

 5. Hooper, 1857:33, 106, no. 6. Gregg, 1857:36. 7. Downing, 1857:137. 

 8. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1862. 9. Warder, 1867:594. fig. 10. Fitz, 1872:145. 

 ii. ///. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1875:49. 12. Thomas, 1875:191. 13. Downing, 

 1881:11 index, app. 14. Bailey, An. Hort., 1892:238. 15. Budd-Hansen, 

 1903:74. 



SYNONYMS. August Apple (7). EARLY PENNOCK (i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 

 10, n, 12, 13, 14, 15). Heicke's Summer Queen (13). Harmony (7, ? of the 

 south, 9). Indian Queen (7). N. J. Red Streak (7). Shaker's Yellow (7, 

 9). Sleeper's Yellow (5). Warren Pennock (5, 7). 



Fruit large, showy, yellow covered with mixed striped red, but often the 

 yellow predominates. Flesh yellow, moderately juicy, subacid, coarse, suit- 

 able for culinary use but not esteemed for dessert; season August. Tree 

 hardy, a biennial cropper and moderately productive. Not recommended 

 for planting in New York. 



Historical. Origin unknown. It was first brought to notice in Ohio more 

 than fifty years ago (i) where it was widely disseminated from some of the 

 nurseries of that state. At one time it was being planted to a limited extent 

 in New York but it has been almost wholly discarded. 



