SUMMER APPLES. 77 



17. SUMMER ROSE. Thomp. Coxe. 



Woolman's Harvest 



A very pretty and very excellent apple, highly esteemed as 

 a dessert fruit. 



Fruit scarcely of medium size, roundish. Skin smooth, rich 

 waxen yellow, streaked and blotched with a little red on the 

 sunny side. Stalk rather short, and slender. Calyx closed, 

 set in an even basin. Flesh tender, abounding with sprightly 

 juice. Ripens early in August. 



18. SUMMER QUEEN. Coxe. 



A popular midsummer apple for the dessert and kitchen. The 

 fruit is large and broad at the crown, tapering towards the eye. 

 The stalk is rather long, and is planted in a pretty deep cavity, 

 sometimes partially closed. Calyx but little sunk in a narrow 

 plaited basin. Skin fine deep yellow in its ground, though well 

 striped and clouded with red. Flesh aromatic, yellow, rich and 

 of good flavour. This variety forms a large tree with somewhat 

 pendant boughs, and the fruit is in perfection by the tenth of 

 August. 



19. SUMMER GOLDEN PIPPIN. Thomp. Lind. P. Mag. 



A nice little English dessert apple, but inferiour to many of 

 our own. Fruit small, ovate, flattened at the eye. Stalk short 

 and calyx set in a wide shallow basin. Skin shining bright yel- 

 low, with a little orange next the sun. Flesh yellow, firm, crisp 

 and rich. Ripens in August. 



20. SOPS OF WINE. Lind. Ron. 



Sops in Wine. Ray, (1688.) 

 Rode Wyn Appel. Knoap. 

 Sapson. Kenrick. 



A charming little apple for the dessert, which the amateur's 

 garden should always contain. Its flavour is sprightly, though 

 not first rate, and its colour is very handsome. Its name pro- 

 bably comes from the red stain in its flesh. Its branches have 

 a spreading habit, and bear plentifully ; and the fruit, in our gar- 

 den, ripens gradually from the first of August to October. Fruit 

 small, from an inch and a half to two and a half in diameter, 

 globular, narrowing to the eye. Skin smooth, crimson in the 

 shade, stained and striped with purplish crimson in the sun, 

 and covered with a delicate white bloom. Stalk slender, three 

 fourths of an inch long. Calyx spreading, in a shallow basin. 

 Flesh white, with stains of a pinkish hue, firm, crisp, juicy, and 

 of a pleasant sub-acid flavour. 



