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Fruit above the middle size, an oblong-ovate in form. Skin 

 smooth, pale, greenish yellow. Stalk rather long, and the eye 

 narrow and deep. Flesh white, very tender and crisp when 

 fully ripe, and with a rich sweet sprightly flavour. Ripens 

 from the middle of July to the tenth of August. Tree mode- 

 rately vigorous, bears abundantly, and forms a round head. 



12. LYMAN'S LARGE SUMMER. 

 Large Yellow Summer. Ken. 



A large and handsome American fruit, introduced to notice 

 by Mr. S. Lyman, of Manchester, Conn. The bearing trees are 

 easily recognized by their long and drooping branches, which 

 are almost wholly without fruit spurs, but bear in clusters at their 

 extremities. They bear poorly until the tree attains consider- 

 able size, when it yields excellent crops. Fruit quite large, 

 roundish, flattened at the ends : skin smooth, pale yellow. Flesh 

 yellow, tender, sub-acid, rich, and high flavoured, and excellent 

 either for the table or for cooking. Last of August. 



13. OSLIN. Thomp. Lind. 

 Arbroath Pippin. Forsyth. 



An excellent Scotch apple, ripening early in August. Form 

 roundish, below medium size, a little flattened. Skin rather 

 tough, clear lemon yellow when quite ripe, mingled with a little 

 bright green, and sprinkled with a few grayish green dots. 

 Stalk short and thick, set in a rather shallow depression. Calyx 

 in a shallow basin, a little plaited, with prominent segments. 

 Flesh yellowish, firm, crisp, juicy, with a spicy aromatic fla- 

 vour. The wood is strong, and grows pretty freely from cut- 

 tings. 



14. RED ASTRACHAN. Thomp. Lind. 



A fruit of extraordinary beauty, first imported into England 

 with the White Astrachan, from Sweden, in 1816. It bears 

 abundantly with us, and its singular richness of colour is height- 

 ened by an exquisite bloom on the surface of the fruit, like that 

 of a plum. It is one of the handsomest dessert fruits, and its 

 quality is good, but if not taken from the tree as soon as ripe, it 

 is liable to become mealy. Ripens from the last of July to the 

 middle of August. 



Fruit pretty large, rather above the middle size, and very 

 smooth and fair, roundish, a little narrowed towards the eye. 

 Skin almost entirely covered with deep crimson, with sometimes 

 a little greenish yellow in the shade, and occasionally a little 



