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excellent qualities for the dessert and for cooking, and its pro- 

 ductiveness, we think it the finest early apple yet known. It 

 begins to ripen about the first of July, and continues in use all 

 that month. The smallest collection of apples should comprise 



Early Harvest. 



this and the Red Astrachan. Form round, above medium size, 

 rarely a little flattened. Skin very smooth, with a few faint 

 white dots, bright straw colour when fully ripe. Stalk half to 

 three fourths of an inch long, rather slender, inserted in a hollow 

 of moderate depth. Calyx set in a shallow basin. Flesh very 

 white, tender and Juicy, crisp, with a rich, sprightly, sub-acid 

 flavour. The young trees of moderate vigour, with scarcely di- 

 verging shoots. Manning errs by following Coxe in calling this 

 a flat apple. Bracken may prove the same. 



COGSWELL. 

 Cogswell Pearmain. 



This excellent apple originated on the farm of Fred. Brewster, 

 Town of Griswold, near Norwich, Conn., and where known is 

 much esteemed and stands unrivalled as a dessert fruit of its sea- 

 son, a vigorous, upright grower and an abundant bearer every 

 other year, fruit very uniform in size, fair and beautiful, and a 

 desirable fruit. 



