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Bough (11, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21, 25, 30, 31, 34, 35, 37). Niack Pippin (17). 

 Pound's July (26). SWEET BOUGH (12, 14, 17, 31, 32, 35, 36). Sweet Bough 

 (7, 13, 20, 22, 24, 25, 27, 33, 34). Siveetbough (28). Sweet Harvest (10, n, 

 17, 22, 25, 27). Yellow Bough (12). Washington (17, 25, incorrectly 22). 



This variety is a universal favorite throughout the state for the 

 home orchard. Hovey ( 1 1 ) well says of it : " The Bough is one 

 of cur finest summer apples, having all the good qualities which 

 should recommend a fruit for general 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 eating 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." 



It is handled to a limited extent in local markets, but is too soft 

 to stand shipping to distant markets. It cannot be ranked among 

 the profitable commercial varieties. The tree comes into bearing 

 rather young, and under favorable conditions is long-lived, speci- 

 mens being found sixty to eighty years old which are still quite pro- 

 ductive. In unfavorable locations the tree is sometimes injured by 

 winter, and the branches are attacked somewhat by the apple 

 canker. 



Historical. This was described by Coxe in 1817 under the name Bough 

 apple (2) It is evidently of American origin. 



TREE. 



Tree moderately vigorous. Form upright spreading to roundish, dense. 

 Twigs short, straight, moderately stout with large terminal buds ; internodes 

 short. Bark clear brown mingled with olive-green, lightly mottled with 

 scarf-skin; not pubescent. Lenticels scattering, small, round, not raised. 

 Buds medium in size, plump, acute, free, not pubescent. 



FRUIT. 



Fruit above medium to large, uniform in size and shape. Form roundish 

 conic or ovate to sometimes slightly oblong conic with broad and rather 

 flat base, pretty regular ; sides often unequal. Stem short to medium, moder- 

 ately thick, usually not exserted. Cavity acuminate, deep, rather broad, some- 

 times furrowed or compressed, usually smooth. Calyx small to medium, 

 closed or partly open; lobes often leafy, sometimes separated at base, long, 



