144 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



SUMMER PEARMAIN {Autumn Peamiain). — Fruit, medium 

 sized, two inches and three quarters wide at the base, and the same 

 high ; conical, or abrupt pearmain-shaped, round at the base, and 

 tapering towards the apex. Skin, yellow, streaked all over with large 

 patches and broken streaks of red, mixed with silvery russet, strewed 

 with numerous russety dots, and covered with large patches of rough 

 russet on the base. Eye, closed, half open, with long acuminate seg- 

 ments, placed in a wide, shallow, and plaited basin. Stalk, half an 

 inch long, obliquely inserted under a fleshy protuberance on one 

 side of it, which is a permanent and distinguishing character of this 

 apple. Flesh, deep yellow, firm, crisp, juicy, richly and highly 

 perfumed. 



An excellent apple, long cultivated, and generally regarded as one of 

 the popular varieties of this country ; it is suitable either for culinary 

 purposes or the dessert, and is in use during September and October. 

 The tree is a good grower, and healthy, of an upright habit of growth, 

 and forms a fine standard tree of the largest size ; it succeeds well 

 grafted on the paradise stock, when it forms handsome espahers and 

 open dwarfs. 



This is what in many nurseries is cultivated as the Royal Pearmain, but erro- 

 neously. It is one of the oldest English varieties, being mentioned by Parkinson 

 in 1629. 



Summer Pippin. See Madeleine. 

 Summer Pippin. See Summer Golden Pippin, 

 Summer Queening. See Crinuon Queening. 

 Summer Thorle. See Whorle Pippin. 

 Summer Traveller. See Margaret. 



SUMMER STIBBERT {Stubbard).—Fixdt, smaU, conical, and 

 codlin-Uke, distinctly five-ribbed, one of the ribs occasionally very 

 prominent. Skin, clear lemon-yellow in the shade, but covered on 

 the side next the sun with bright crimson. Eye, small and closed, set 

 in a puckered basin. Stalk, slender, rather deeply inserted. Flesh, 

 very tender, with an agreeable mUd acidity. 



An early kitchen apple, which comes into use in the middle and end 

 of August. 



This is a very popular apple in the West of England, especially in Cornwall, 

 Devon, and Somerset. 



SUMMER STRAWBERRY.— Fruit, rather below medium size, 

 two and a half inches broad, and an inch and three quarters high ; 

 oblate, even and regularly formed. Skin, smooth and shining, striped 

 all over with yellow and blood-red stripes, except on any portion that 

 is shaded, and there it is red. Eye, prominent, not at all depressed, 

 closed, with long flat segments, and surrounded with prominent plaits. 

 Stalk, three quarters of an inch long, inserted in a round, narrow 



