490 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Apples. 



tural Society have also designated it as " one of the best of 

 its season." It is a large and handsome fruit, with the good 

 quality of being used for the kitchen long before it is ripe. 

 The tree is also of very luxuriant growth, with somewhat 

 pendent boughs, and is a great and constant bearer. It comes 

 in just after the Early Harvest and Bough, and fills a place 

 when we have but few apples of its size, quality, and beauty. 

 Size^ large, about three inches broad, and two and three 

 quarters deep : Form, roundish conical, broad at the base, 

 and tapering roundly to the crown, which is small : Skin, 



Fig. 48. Summer Queen Apple. 



fair, smooth, with a rich yellow ground, very distinctly 

 splashed and striped with purplish red, darkest on the sunny 

 side, russeted at the base of the stem, and dotted with a few 

 russet specks : Stem, medium length, about one inch long, 

 stout, and obliquely inserted in a large, somewhat contracted, 

 and deep cavity : Eye, large, open, and but slightly depressed 

 in a very small, furrowed basin; segments of the calyx, short, 

 evenly formed, and pointed : Flesh, white, tinged with pink, 



