Descriptions of Select Varieties of Ajjples. 489 



just after the Early Harvest, and is nearly or quite equal to 

 that favorite variety. The tree is a very abundant bearer, 

 and the fruit remarkably fair and handsome. 



Size, small, about two and a half inches broad, and two deep : 

 Foi'in, roundish, regular, and narrowing little to the crown : 

 Skin, fair, smooth, with a yellow ground, but nearly or quite 

 covered with fine stripes and splashes of light and dark red, 

 interspersed with a few whitish specks : Stem^ long, about one 



Fig. 47. Early Strawberry Apple. 



and a quarter inches in length, somewhat slender, curved, and 

 inserted in a rather contracted, deep cavity : Eye, medium 

 size, closed, and but slightly depressed in a nearly smooth, 

 shallow basin : Flesh, yellowish white, tinged with red next 

 the skin, fine, crisp, and tender : Juice, abundant, pleasantly 

 acid, sprightly, and high-flavored : Core, rather open : Seeds, 

 medium size. Ripe in July and August. 



XXI. Summer Queen. Coxe's View, &c. 



Mr. Coxe, whose good judgment has rarely been called in 

 question, describes the Summer Queen, (^g. 48,) as "an 

 apple of the finest quality," and, in appearance, "uncom- 

 monly beautiful;" and subsequent writers have highly rec- 

 ommended it to cultivation. The Massachusetts Horticul- 



