68 VARIETIES OF APPLE. 



varieties can be grown, it will stand high on the list as a very 

 valuable fruit. Those favorably situated for disposing quickly 

 of a considerable quantity of September apples, will find this a 

 very profitable market variety. 



Early Harvest. — Yellow Harvest. — Early French Reinette. 

 This excellent summer variety cannot be grown with the same 

 results in all parts of the country. To be grown in its full 

 perfection, it requires a soil abounding in lime and potash, and 

 these seem to be essential to both the vigor and longevity of the 

 tree and the full development of size and flavor in the fruit. 

 "Where such soil can be had, the tree does not seem to be very 

 tender, growing in nearly all parts of Ontario, and in ^fiTova Scotia. 

 But when gi'own in rich alluvial soils, deficient in lime, and par- 

 ticTilarly if not thoroughly and deeply drained, the tree is tender, 

 the fruit often very badly spotted, cracking and dropping oflE 

 without attaining its full size ; and those specimens which may 

 be measurably fair are usually deficient in flavor. But when a 

 suitable soil can be supplied, the tree seems healthy, and the 

 fruit fair, smooth and of excellent quality. 



The tree is upright, a moderate grower, forming a spreading 

 head, bearing early and abundantly. The fruit is of medium 

 size, roundish, smooth, of a bright straw color ; the flesh white, 

 tender, juicy and rich, with a pleasant, sprightly sub-acid flavor ; 

 in quality, " very good ;" ripe the end of July and first of August. 

 It is excellent both for cooking and as a dessert fruit, and well 

 deserving a place in every collection where it can be grown, and 

 in case of doubt, well worth a trial. 



Early Joe. — Without question this is the richest, most 

 delightf jUy flavored, and best of all the summer dessert apples. 

 It flourishes best in rich soil, and seems to be nearly, if not 

 quite, as bardy as the Red Astrachan. Unfortunately the tree 

 is a very slow grower when young, and consequently nurserymen 

 grow as few as they possibly can, and never send them out to 

 customers without expecting, and usually they receive it, a consid- 

 erable scolding on account of the insignificant appearance of the 



