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though neither very juicy or highly flavoured. It is a 

 great and constant bearer in good ground : it ripens 

 from the twentieth of June to the middle of July, accor- 

 ding to the soil, aspect, and age of the tree. The 

 growth of the tree is straight, the form handsome, what 

 Orchardists call beesom-headed ; the size small.' 



NO. 2. PRINCES HARVEST, OR EARLY FRENCH REINETTE. 



This is a very fine apple for stewing when green, 

 and when ripe is a very pleasant eating apple the 

 form is flat, the size rather above the middling; the 

 skin when fully ripe, of a beautiful bright straw co- 

 lour; the flesh white, tender, sprightly, and juicy. 

 The character of this apple stands very high ; it is a 

 great bearer, and is in season during the whole month 

 of July: the tree is of a middling size, the growth not 

 very vigorous ; the head round, the limbs spreading, 

 without much symmetry or regularity the stalk is 

 long and planted in a deep hollow, as is also the 

 crown. 



NO. 3. BOUGH APPLE. 



The size of this apple when on young trees, in 



rich ground, is sometimes large the form is rather 



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