W APPLES. 



APPLES.* 



Class 1. Summer Apples. 

 1. AMERICAN SUMMER PEARMAIN. Thomp. 



Early Summer Pearmain. Core. 



A rich, high-flavoured fruit, much esteemed in New-Jersey, 

 where it is most known. It appears to be quite different from 

 the Summer Pearmain, (of the English,) and is probably a seed- 

 ling raised from it. It ripens gradually from the tenth of August 

 to the last of September. 



Fruit of medium size, oblong, widest at the crown, and taper- 

 ing slightly to the eye. Skin, red spotted with yellow in the 

 shade, but streaked with livelier red and yellow on the sunny 

 side. Stalk three fourths of an inch long, and pretty deeply in- 

 serted. Eye deeply sunk. Flesh yellow, remarkably tender, with 

 a rich and pleasant flavour, and often bursts in falling from the 

 tree. This is a valuable apple for all purposes, and it thrives 

 admirably on sandy soils. In the nursery the tree grows slowly. 



2. BOROVITSKY. Thomp. Lind. 



A good early Russian apple of the middle size, which ripens 

 here the last of July. Form roundish, a little angular. Stalk, 

 an inch long, planted rather deeply. Skin, pale green, with a 

 semi-transparent appearance, faintly striped on the sunny side 

 with light and dark red. Calyx in a large basin. Flesh, white, 

 pretty firm, and juicy, with an agreeable sub-acid flavour. 



3. BENONI. Man. Ken. 



This excellent early apple is a native of Dedham, Mass. The 

 fruit is of medium size, nearly round. Skin, deep red. Flesh, 

 yellow, tender, and of an agreeable rich, sub-acid flavour. 

 Ripens during the whole month of August, and is a good and 

 regular bearer. 



* In describing apples, we shall designate the size by comparison, as follows : 

 small, as the English Golden pippin ; medium size, as the Newtown pippin; large, 

 as the Yellow Bellflower and Fall pippin as we consider this reference to a stan 

 daid, generally known, better than an exact description by measure owing to the 

 variation in different soils and seasons. 



The blossom-end, apex or crown of the fruit, is called the eye ; but we shall, for 

 the sake of precision, call the remains of the blossom still found there the calyx, 

 and the hollow in which it is placed the basin. 



$ This mark denotes varieties particularly recommended by the author. 



