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erate and regular bearer. Shoots yellowish, somewhat irregular, ascend- 

 ing; tree round-headed; leaves obtusely crenate. 



Sununer Rose, — {Syn. Woolman's early, Woolinan's striped harvest.) 

 Medium, or rather small, ' roundish oblate ; yellowish, blotched, and 

 streaked with red; stalk rather short; basin round, slightly plaited; 

 flesh very tender, slightly crisp; texture fine, mild subacid, juicy, ex- 

 cellent. Begins to ripen with wheat harvest, and continues a month. 

 Fine in all localities. Better in quality for the table than early harvest, 

 but less productive. 



Golden Sweet. — Medium, or rather large, roundish, slightly flattened; 

 greenish, becoming pale yellow; stalk an inch or more long, slender; 

 cavity acuminate ; basin moderate ; flesh very sweet, good, hardly first 

 rate. The fruit is always fair, the tree a free grower, and very pro- 

 ductive. Buds large ; leaves sharply serrate. Late in summer. Valu- 

 able for domestic animals. 



American Summer Pearmain. — {Syn. early summer pearmain of Coxe.) 

 Medium in size, oblong, slightly inclining to truncate-conical ; nearly 

 covered with fine broken streaks and dots of red; stalk nearly one inch 

 long; basin round, even, distinct; very tender, often bursts in falling,- 

 subacid, flavor fine. Continues to ripen for several weeks in late sum- 

 mer and early autumn. Needs good and rich cultivation. Growth 

 rather slow. This is distinct from the English summer or autumn pear- 

 main, in its larger size, higher red, more oblong form, and superior 

 quality. 



Early Harvest, — (Syn. yellow harvest, prince's harvest, early French 

 reinette, July pippin.) Size, medium, roundish, usually more or less ob- 

 late, smooth ; bright straw-color, when ripe ; stalk rather short and 

 slender; calyx moderately sunk; flesh nearly white, flavor rather acid, 

 fine. Kipens at wheat harvest and for three weeks afterward. Shoots 

 erect, slightly diverging, straight, often forked. Very productive. 

 Needs rich cultivation to be fine. Good throughout the Northern states. 



The Tart-Bongh is similar, but two weeks later, and inferior in quality; 

 the growth more vigorous and upright. 



Early Joe. — Size, medium, or rather small ; oblate, sometimes ob- 

 scurely approaching conical ; smooth and regular ; color, with numer- 

 ous short, broken red stripes on yellow ground, a nearly uniform deep 

 red to the sun, with conspicuous white specks; stem three-quarters of 

 an inch long, rather thick ; cavity shallow, acute ; basin small, even ; 

 flesh fine-grained, very tender, slightly crisp, juicy, subacid, spicy, ex- 

 cellent. Ripens the last two weeks of summer. Shoots dark, growth 

 slow. A profuse bearer. Origin, East Bloomfield, New York. 



Early Strawberry. — (Syn. American red Juneating, of Manning.) 

 Rather small, roundish, varying to round-ovate, and sometimes quite 

 conical ; surface indistinctly and finely striped with bright and deep red, 

 tinging faintly the flesh ; stalk tender, three-quarters to an inch and a 

 half long; basin srnall and narrow; flesh white, tender, subacid, rather 

 brisk, pleasant, not very rich. Ripens one to three weeks later than 

 yellow harvest. Growth, very erect ; leaves erect, finely crenate. Pro- 

 ductive. Good|in all localities. 



Garden Royi^-Below medium, roundish, slightly flattened at ends, 



