OF SUMMER APPLES. 



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Class III. Russets and semi-russcts. 

 Order II. Breadth greater than (he height. 

 B. Ends oneqnal. 

 16. RUSSELL'S SWEET RUSSET. 

 Fruit of the medium size, unsymmetricaL 

 Stem rather stout, of a medium length, 

 and set in a deep depression. Calyx large, 

 and set in a shallow depression. Color 

 pale yellow on a green ground, and on 

 the sunny side a faint blush of red is 

 sometimes formed. A fine and beautiful 

 russet spreads over a large part of the 

 shaded side. Skin warted. Flesh yellow 

 and firm grained, rich, sweet and good. 

 The tree is robust and strong, and grows 

 with an upright open head. Ripens its fruit 

 is August (see the Transactions of the Ohio 

 Nurserymen and Fruit-growers Convention, 

 p. 15, 1848) . The description given of the 

 fruit leads me to entertain a favorable opinion of the apple, and hence I have given it the 

 name of Russell's Sweet Russet, retaining the name of the gentleman who presented the 

 apple. 



17. SUMMER QUEEN (Plate 27, fig. 1). 



Summer Pearmain. 



Fruit of the medium size, elongated, nearly or quite circular. Stem long, and set in a 

 deep depression. Calyx rather large, and crowning a tube which extends to the core, 

 and which is grown to a plaited depression. Color carmine red, and indistinctly striped 

 upon a yellow ground. Flesh yellowish. Core rather large, the seeds occupying only 

 about a quarter of the space. Flavor rich, aromatic and fine. 

 This apple grows upon a large tree with pendant branches, and ripens early in August. 



The apple is quite broad at the base, and tapers considerably to the crown. 



18. EARLY JOE (Horticulturist). 



Fruit below the medium size, circular and rather flattened, smooth and shining. Stem long, 

 and set in a wide basin. Calyx small, and placed in a shallow depression. Color pale 

 carmine and striped with deeper, which is quite intense when exposed to the full rays of 

 the sun, spotted sparsely with green. Flesh white, tender, juicy : flavor pleasant and 

 agreeable : taste subacid. 

 The Early Joe is a fine dessert apple, and equal to any in its season. It is a seedling, 



and originated in Western New-York, in the orchard of Oliver Chafiu, East Bloomfield. 



It was first brought before the public by William Smith of Macedon, in the Horticulturist 



for February 1847. 



