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pale greenish yellow, with many opaque, greenish, or white 

 dots obtruding to the skin out of the surrounding clearer and 

 more transparent flesh : Calyx, closed : Stem, slender, and 

 rather long : Flesh, at maturity very tender, juicy, and 

 sweet, and entirely free from the astringency of some sweet 

 apples. Season, middle of July to August. The tree is a 

 thrifty, upright grower, apt to fork four or five feet from the 

 ground, and send up three or four erect and equal sized 

 branches. 



Fig. 39. Summer Syceeiing Apple. 



The above description is made with the fruit before me, 

 taken from a young tree now in its third season of bearing, 

 but differs as to the form, and time of ripening, from my rec- 

 ollection of the fruit as seen in former years in Mrs. Monroe's 

 orchard, at Wakatomica, upon old trees ; according to which, 

 its shape would be somewhat pointed towards the blossom 

 end, and its season fully two weeks earlier. 



June Apple. — Size, medium, nearly round, but varying 

 much in shape, being often ribbed, the ribs swelling out 

 broadly but not very prominently, and extending from the 

 stem to the eye : irregularly striped, and mottled with red on 

 a green or yellow ground, red being the prevailing color : 

 Calyx closed : Stem, short, thick, and fleshy : of an agreea- 

 ble, sprightly, and delicate subacid flavor, perfumed: be- 

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