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THE APPLE. 



Tree hardy, an early and abundant bearer. The fruit, however, is 

 only showy, and salable in market where a better quality of fruit is un- 

 known. 



Early Queening. 



Fruit medium or below, roundish, yellow, striped and mingled with 

 red. riesh whitish, slightly subacid. August. Tree rather spreading, 

 with light brown shoots. 



Early Red Margaret. 



Margaret, or Striped Juneating. Striped June. 

 Early Red Juneating. Striped Juneating, 



Eed Juneatiag, Eve Apple of the Irish. 



Margaretha Apfel of the Germans. 



An excellent early Apple, ripening about the middle of July, or 

 directly after the Early Harvest. The tree while young is rather slen- 

 der, with reddish brown upright woolly shoots. It is a moderate bearer. 



Fruit below medium size, roundish ovate, tapering towards the eye. 

 Skin greenish yellow, pretty well covered by stripes of dark red. Flesh 

 white, subacid, and, when freshly gathered from the tree, of a rich, agree- 

 able flavor. Good. 



Early Eed Streak. 



Fruit medium, roundish, yellowish, mostly covered with red, mar- 

 bled and splashed. Flesh white, tender, j uicy, crisp, subacid. August, 

 September. 



There are a number of distinct apples under the name of Early Red, 

 or Early Red Streak, and we have been unable to decide perfectly as 

 to which 'the name truly belongs. None of them, however, are more 

 than moderately good. One, under name of Philadelphia Queen, is also 

 similar to Early Red, and may be the same. The origin is variously 

 claimed, but all unknown. 



Fall Stripe may also prove identical with one of the above. 



Early Red Sweet. 



From Pennsylvania. 



Fruit medium, roundish, sweet. Not desirable. 



Early Ripe. 



Supposed Pennsylvania origin, but unknown. ^ Tree a free grower, 

 and productive. 



Fruit medium, roundish oblate, pale yellow, sprinkled with a few 

 gray dots. Stalk long, in a slightly russeted cavity. Calyx small, 

 closed. Flesh white, tender, juicy, subacid. Good. August. 



There is also another apple under name of Early Mipe, which is 

 small, oblate. Stalk short. Flesh brisk subacid. 



Early Spice. 



An English culinary Apple. Fruit medium, roundish, pale yellow. 

 Flesh white, marrowy, poor. August. (Hogg.) 



There is also an Early Spice originated in Chatham, N. C, which is 



