86 THE APPLE. 



Large Yellow Bough. Thomp. 



Early Sweet Bough. Kenrick. 

 Sweet Harvest. 

 Bough. Coxe. Floy. 



A native apple, ripening in harvest time, and one of the first 

 quality, only second as a dessert fruit to the Early Harvest. It 

 is not so much esteemed for the kitchen as the latter, as it is too 

 sweet for pies and sauce, but it is generally much admired for 

 the table, and is worthy of a place in every collection. 



Fruit above the middle size, and oblong-ovate in form. Skin 

 smooth, pale, greenish yellow. Stalk rather long, and the eye 

 narrow and deep. Flesh white, very tender and crisp when fully 

 ripe, and with a rich, sweet, sprightly flavour. Ripens from the 

 middle of July to the tenth of August. Tree moderately vigo- 

 rous, bears abundantly, and forms a round head. 



Long Stem of Pennsylvania. 



Origin Berks county, Pa. Fruit rather below medium, glo- 

 bular, inclining to oblong or oval. Stalk long and slender, 

 curved, inserted in a large cavity. Calyx small and closed, set in 

 a somewhat furrowed basin. Skin yellowish, very much shaded, 

 and sometimes striped with red or dark crimson. Flesh tender, 

 juicy, crisp, with a fine rich, sub-acid flavour, spicy and aroma- 

 tic. An excellent dessert fruit of the highest flavour; core 

 large and open. November to January. 



Mangum. 



