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EARLY HARVEST. (Yellow Harvest, Prince's Harvest, Early 

 French Reinette, July Pippin.) Size medium, roundish, usually 

 more or less oblate, smooth ; bright straw color, when ripe ; stalk 

 rather short and slender ; calyx moderately sunk ; flesh nearly 

 white, flavor rather acid, fine. Ripens at wheat harvest, and for 



Fig. z^.-f Early Harvest. 



three weeks afterwards. Shoots erect, slightly diverging, straight, 

 often forked. Productive. Needs rich cultivation to be fine. 

 Good throughout the northern states and south-west, tender 

 north-west. 



Garretsorts Early. Size medium, roundish-oblate ; skin greenish 

 yellow with numerous dots ; stalk short, cavity shallow ; basin 

 small, furrowed ; flesh white, crisp, tender, sub-acid, " very good." 

 July and Aug. Tree vigorous, productive. 



Horse. Large, varying from oblate to oval, ribbed, yellow ; stalk 

 short ; cavity and basin shallow ; flesh yellow, rather coarse, sub- 

 acid. Tree vigorous, productive, valued at the South and West 

 as a summer cooking and drying apple. 



Kirkbridge White. (Yellow June.) Size medium, oval, tapering to 

 apex and base, equally blunt at ends with broad ribs ; smooth, 

 pale yellow ; stem short ; cavity and basin very narrow ; flesh 

 very tender, fine grained, with a moderately "good" sub-acid 

 flavor. Ripens soon after Early Harvest and for six weeks. 

 Tree a slow grower, but a great and early bearer ; valuable at the 

 West Too tender for long transportation. 



