THE EARLY HARVEST APPLE. 



Early Harvest. Kenrick's American OrcharcUst, 1st Ed. 1833. 



Large Early Harvest, Thatcher's Am. Orchardist. 



Prince's Harvest, or i 



Early French Reinette, \ ^^^^'^ ^'''' "f ^''' O'^^^rd, <^c. 



July Pippin, Floy, in Guide to the Orchard, Am. Ed. 



July Early Pippin, ) 



Large Early, \ H^^- Soc Catalogue, 3d. Ed. 1842. 



Harvest, i 



Yellow Harvest, , ^ , . „ ■ 



^ ,,_ ^ rol some American collections. 



Large White Juneating, 



Tart Bough, ' 



The Early Harvest is, without doubt, the finest 

 early apple we yet possess. Of good size, and 

 beautiful appearance, it has a crisp and tender 

 flesh, and combines, in its flavor, that pleasant ad- 

 mixture of sweet and acid which gives a freshness 

 peculiar among early apples. 



Mr. Coxe, in his excellent work on fruit trees, 

 describes the Early Harvest under the names above 

 quoted from his work, and he is the first author 

 who notices this variety. He does not, however, 

 state its origin, or from whence he received it; but 

 as it has not been identified among the great number of foreign kinds 

 which have been introduced to American collections, there can be no 

 doubt of its native origin. 



Though now upwards of thirty years since it was first brought to 

 notice by Mr. Coxe, it is yet very little cultivated, in comparison with 

 other sorts more recently introduced, and of inferior quality. The 

 supply of fruit for our markets is exceedingly limited, and what there 

 is, when large and fine, commands a very high price. That a variety so 

 excellent should not have been much more extensively disseminated is 

 somewhat remarkable, and we hope our description and figure of it may 

 aid in making it better known to all cultivators. 



The Early Harvest is a moderately vigorous and healthy growing 

 tree, branching low, but forming, when full grown, a fine round head ; 

 it comes early into bearing, and produces abundant crops. The young 

 trees gi'ow upright, and may readily be distinguished among others from 

 the forked appearance of the lateral shoots, several of which spring 

 from the extremity of the previous year's wood. 



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