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Summer Pippin. Sec Summer Golden Pippin. 

 Summer Queening. See Crimson Queening. 



SUMMER STIBBERT (HtMwl). Fruit, small, conical, and 

 Codlin-like, distinctly five-ribbed, one of the ribs occasionally very 

 prominent. Skin, clear lemon-yellow in the shade, but covered on 

 the side next the sun with bright crimson. Eye, small and closed, set 

 in a puckered basin. Stalk, slender, rather deeply inserted. Flesh, 

 very tender, with an agreeable mild acidity. 



An early kitchen apple, which comes into use in the middle and end 

 of August. 



This is a very popular apple in the West of England, especially in Cornwall, 

 Devon, and Somerset. 



SUMMER STRAWBERRY. Fruit, rather below medium size, 

 two and ;i halt' inches broad, and an inch and three-quarters high; 

 oMato, even and regularly formed. Skin, smooth and shining, striped 

 all over with yellow and blood-red stripes, except on any portion that 

 is shaded, aud there it is greenish yellow, mingled with faint red 

 streaks. Eye, not much depressed, closed, with long, flat, connivent 

 segments, and surrounded with plaits, set in a wide and very shallow 

 ba<iii. Stamens, median; tube, conical. Stalk, half an inch to 

 three -quarters of an inch long, inserted in a round, narrow cavity, 

 which is lined with russet. Flesh, white, tinged with yellow, soft, 

 tender, juicy, brisk, and pleasantly flavoured. Cells, roundish elliptical ; 

 axile, open. 



A dessert apple, ripe in September, but when kept long becomes dry 

 and mealy ; it is much cultivated in all the Lancashire and northern 

 orchards of England. 



Summer Thorle. See Wlwrle Pippin. 

 Summer Traveller. See Mary tt ret. 



SURREY FLAT-CAP. Fruit, above medium size, three inches 

 wide, and two inches and a quarter high ; oblate, even and regularly 

 formed. Skin, of a pale bluish green, or verdigris colour, changing as 

 it ripens to a yellowish tinge, and marked with dots and flakes of 

 rough veiny russet on the shaded side, but deep red, which is almost 

 obscured with rough veiny russet, on the side next the sun. Eye,, 

 open, with broad segments, reflexed at the tips, set in a wide, shallow, 

 and plaited basin. Stamens, marginal ; tube, conical. Stalk, half an 

 inch long, inserted in a round and deep cavity. Flesh, yellow, firm, 

 not very juicy, but rich and sugary. Cells, roundish ; axile. 



A very excellent dessert apple, remarkable for its singular colour, but 

 is rather void of acidity ; it is in use from October to January. 



SUSSEX MOTHER. Fruit, about medium size, two inches and a 

 half wide, and the same in height ; conical, angular on the sides, and 



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