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The Apples of New York. 



Historical. It has been known in this country for many j-ears (4, 5, 6, 7, 

 8, 9). It was not entered on the catalogue of the American Pomological 

 Society till 1889 (16) and was dropped from that Hst in 1891. It is practi- 

 cally unknown in New York. 



WHITE JUNEATING. 



References, i. Am. Gard. Cal, 1806:584. 2. Coxe, 1817:100. /z^. 3. 

 London Hort. Soc. Cat., 1831 :No. 612. 4. Floy-Lindley, 1833:3. 5. Mag. 

 Hort., 1:326. 1835. 6. Downing, 1845:78. Hg. 7. Thomas, 1849:144. Hg. 

 8. Cole, 1849:97. 9. Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y., 3:17. 1851. 10. Elliott, 

 1854:162. II. Hooper, 1857:20. 12. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1862. 13. Horti- 

 culturist, 21:292. 1866. fig. 14. Warder, 1867:417. 15. Fitz, 1872:143. 151, 

 161. 16. Hogg. 1884:117. 17. Wickson, 1889:242. 18. Bruner, .V. C. Sta. 

 Bit!., 182 :23. 1903. 19. Budd-Hansen, 1903 :200. 



SvNOXYMS. Bracken (8, 11. of Ohio 7). Carolina (10). Caroline (10). 

 Early Jenneting (16). Early May (10, ?I4). Gennetting (17). Gixetting 



(1) . Ginetting (16). Jenneting (2). Jennetting (17). Joaxetixg (16). 

 Juneateing (i). Juneatixg (4). Juneating (6, 8. 10, 11, 14. 16). Juxetixg 



(2) . Juneting (16). Oiven's Golden Beauty (3. 6. 10. 16). Primiting (16). 

 White Juneating (3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19). White 

 Juneating (16). Yellow May (18, 19). Yellozc June (14). 



This apple has little to recommend it except that it ripens very early in the 

 season. It is small, roundish oblate, pale yellow, sometimes faintly blushed 

 and has white, crisp, pleasant subacid flesh which becomes mealy if kept only 

 a few days after it ripens. The tree is not large, only a moderate grower 

 and not a great bearer (6, 8, 16). 



Historical. Hogg (16) gives the following interesting account of the 

 history of this apple and the probable derivation of the name Juneating : 



" One of our oldest apples, and although generally known and popular, 

 seems to have escaped the notice of j\Iiller, who does not even mention it in 

 any of the editions of his Dictionary. As I have doubts of this being the 

 Geneting of Parkinson — his figure being evidently intended for the IMargaret, 

 which in some districts is called Joaneting — the first mention we have of 

 this variety is by Rea, in 1665. who describes it as ' a small, yellow, red-sided 

 apple, upon a wall, ripe in the end of June.' 



Juneating.' as applied to this apple, is quite a misnomer. Abercrv^mbie 

 was the first who wrote it June-eating, as if in allusion to the period of its 

 maturity, which is, however, not till the end of July. Dr. Johnson, in his 

 Dictionary, writes it Gineting, and says it is a corruption of Janeton (Fr.), 

 signifying Jane or Janet, having been so called from a person of that name. 

 Rayi says, ' Pomum Ginettinum, quod unde dictum sit met latet.' Indeed, 

 there does not seem ever to have been a correct definition given of it. 



" My definition of the namie is this. In the Middle Ages, it was customary 

 to make the festivals of the Church periods on which occurrences were to 

 take place or from which events were to be named. Even in the present day 

 we hear the country people talking of some crop to be sown, or some other 



1 Hist. Plant., ii. 1447. 



