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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. 248. 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. 



Garret sorts 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. 



