74 VARIETIES OP APPLE. 



"very good." In use from January to March. This variety has 

 been very highly recommended as a market fruit, but we notice 

 in it a tendency to drop from the tree, especially dining the 

 high winds of September, which materially lessens its value as 

 a profitable market fruit. "We therefore advise market orchardists 

 to plant it in sheltered positions, and not too freely at first. 



Keswick Codlin. — This variety is valuable in some of the 

 colder parts of the Dominion, though not sufficiently hardy to 

 endure as great severity of climate as the Snow Apple, St. Law- 

 rence and Alexander. In the County of Renfrew the tree hves 

 and bears fruit, but it is not healthy. In the milder parts, where 

 most varieties succeed well, it is quite superseded by higher 

 flavored sorts. It is valued chiefly as a cooking apple, being 

 used for that purpose before the fruit is fully grown ; but to our 

 taste the Early Harvest is much to be preferred to it for all pur- 

 poses. 



The tree is moderately vigorous, upright in habit, and forming 

 a small, round head. It comes into bearing very early, and is 

 enormously productive ; flourishing finely on rich alluvial soils. 

 The fruit is very variable in size, running from small to large ; 

 conical in form, with one or two raised lines from the stem to 

 the eye ; greenish yellow in color, with sometimes a faint blush 

 on the sunny side ; the flesh yellowish white, juicy, with a brisk 

 acid flavor; quality not above "good." Eipe last of September 

 to middle of October. We have never seen this apple attacked 

 by that parasitic fungus which is sometimes so injurious to the 

 Early Harvest, and on this account it will be valuable where that 

 suffers frequently from this cause. 



Large Yellow Bough. — Sweet Bough. — Early Sweet Bough. 

 Sweet Harvest. — ^This is the best early sweet apple, ripening in 

 harvest, not all at once, but gradually, from the middle of July 

 to the end of August. The fruit is usually large, somewhat 

 conical in form ; color a very light greenish yeUow ; flesh white, 

 tender, juicy and sweet. It is very good when baked, or as a 

 dessert fruit. 



