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It attains about the middle size when fully grown. The shoots are 

 thickly sot with fruit spurs. It is well adapted for dwarf or espalier 

 training, and for these purposes succeeds well on the paradise stock. 



DYMOCK RED. Fruit, below medium size, two inches and a half 

 wide, by two inches high ; roundish or oblate, even. Skin, entirely 

 covered with dark mahogany red, with streaks of bright pale crimson 

 on the side next the sun, and somewhat paler, though of the same 

 colour, on the shaded side ; the whole surface is strewed with distinct 

 russet dots and mottled with patches and ramifications of cinnamon- 

 coloured russet. Eye, set in a shallow, roughly plaited basin, with 

 segments that are either divergent or connivent ; when the former, they 

 reflex like those of Court-pendu-plat, and when the latter, they touch 

 each other by their edges and close the eye. Stamens, basal ; tube, 

 funnel-shaped. Stalk, very short, often a mere knob, placed in a very 

 narrow and shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish, soft, and tender, slightly 

 sweet, and with a pleasant acidity ; occasionally it is tinged with red. 

 Cells, ovate ; axile, closed. 



Earl of Yarmouth's Pearmain. See Oxnead Pearmain. 



EARLY ALMOND (White Codlin). Fruit, very large, three inches 

 and a half in diameter, and three inches high ; conical, with very 

 prominent angles on the sides, which extend to the apex, where 

 they form bold and acute ridges, terminating in the basin of the 

 eye. Skin, of an uniform greenish yellow, which changes to a fine 

 lemon yellow when fully ripe, and here and there a large patch of green 

 between the ribs near the stalk. Eye, half open, with long acuminate 

 bright green and woolly segments, set in a rather deep and angular 

 basin. Stalk, short and slender, imbedded in a very deep, round, and 

 funnel-shaped cavity. Flesh, quite white, exceedingly tender and 

 marrow-like, with a mild and agreeable acidity. 



A remarkably fine culinary apple ; in use from the beginning of 

 August, and lasting throughout the month. It is one of the largest 

 and best culinary apples I know. 



The Early Almond is cultivated in the Essex and Berkshire orchards. 



Early Bough. See Large Yellow Bough. 

 Early Crofton. See Irish Peach. 



EARLY HARVEST (Early French Eeinette ; July I'ippin ; Prince's 

 Harvest; Pri nc is Early Harvest ; Large Early; July Early Pippin; 

 Yellow Harvest; Large White Juneating ; Tart Bough ; Princes 

 Yellow Harvest; July Early J'ippin; Pomme d'Ete, of Canada). 

 Fruit of medium size, two inches and three-quarters wide, and two 

 inches and a quarter high ; round. Skin, smooth and shining, pale 

 yellowish green at first, but changing to clear pale waxen yellow as it 

 ripens, with a faint blush of red next the sun, and set with imbedded 

 white specks, particularly round the eye. Eye, small and slightly 



