488 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Apples. 



The Bough is one of our finest summer apples, having all 

 the good qualities which should recommend a fruit for gen- 

 eral cultivation. The tree is moderately vigorous, making a 

 handsome head, and bears abundant crops of large, very fair 

 fruit, which begins to ripen the last of July, and remains in eat- 

 ing till the first of September. As a table apple, it will not 

 rank as high as the Early Harvest ; but, as a kitchen fruit, in 

 its honied sweetness and tender flesh, it has no equal of its 

 season. It should be found in every good collection. 



Size^ large, about three and a half inches broad, and three 

 deep : Form., roundish conical, broad, and slightly flattened 

 at the base, narrowing to the crown, which is often quite 

 small : Skin., fair, smooth, pale straw-color, faintly tinged 

 with pale blush on the sunny side, and dotted with a few 

 large russet specks : Stem, rather short, about half an inch in 

 length, slender, curved, and inserted in a deep, regular, and 

 rather open cavity : Eye., medium size, partially open, and 

 considerably sunk in a round, regular basin ; segments of the 

 calyx short : Flesh, white, fine, slightly crisp and very ten- 

 der: Juice, tolerably abundant, sugary, rich, and high- 

 flavored : Core, large, nearly close : Seeds, small. Ripe in 

 July and August. 



XX. Early Strawberry. Fruits and Fruit Trees of America. 



American Red Juneating, i 



Red Juneating, (erroneously,) \ ^''"^'^ '^"^ ^'""^'^ '^'''' "f ^"^^rica. 



Whether this apple, {fg. 47,) is a new and distinct Amer- 

 ican variety, originated in the vicinity of New York, as has 

 been supposed, or is an old foreign fruit introduced from 

 Europe, we have not yet been fully able to determine. It is 

 raised in greater abundance than any other early apple, 

 and the markets of New York and Boston are supplied with 

 it, raised in the neighborhood of the former city. Its brilliant 

 appearance, added to the rich perfume of its skin, render it a 

 favorite apple. 



The Early Strawberry is readily known from the Early 

 Red Margaret, which is the Red Juneating of many Ameri- 

 can collections, from its much longer and more slender stem, 

 and from its roundish or somewhat oblate form. It comes in 



