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Art. IV. Descriptions and Engravings of Select Varieties 

 of Apples. By the Editor. 



XIIT. Early Harvest. Ameincan Orchardist. 



Large Early Harvest. Thacher's American Orehardist. 

 Prince's Harvest, or i 



Early French Reinette, I ^'^''' ^''""^ ^^- 

 July Pippin. Floy, in Guide to the Orchard. 

 Large White Juneating, -j 

 . Yellow Harvest, > of some American collections. 



Tart Bough, ' 



July Early Pippin, 



Large Early, < London Hort. Soc. Cat. 3d Ed 



The Early Harvest, {fig. 11,) is undoubtedly the finest 

 early apple we possess. Of full medium size, it has a rich 



Fig. 1 1 . Early Harvest. 



yellow skin, a crisp and tender flesh, and combines, in its fla- 

 vor, that pleasant admixture of sweet and acid, which gives it 

 a freshness peculiar among early apples. Though of Amer- 

 ican origin, and fully described by Coxe^ in his excellent work, 

 under the names above quoted, it is yet far from being com- 

 mon in collections in the vicinity of Boston, and is so scantily 



