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agreeable, aromatic, slightly subacid. Very good to best. September 

 October. 



Dyer, or Pomme Eoyale. 



Early Chandler. 



Fruit medium or small, roundish. Color mostly shaded and striped 

 with fine red on yellow ground. Stalk short, in a regular cavity. 

 Calyx closed, in a large basin. Flesh yellow, tender, juicy, with a plea- 

 sant subacid flavor. Fine for cooking, too acid for eating. Good. 

 August. 



Early Harvest. 



Prince's Harvest, or Early French Reinette, of Coxe. 

 July Pippin. Tart Bough. 



Yellow Harvest. Early French Reinette. 



Large White Juneating. Sinclair's Yellow. 



An American Apple ; and taking into account its beauty, its excel- 

 lent qualities for the dessert and for cooking, and its productiveness, we 

 think it the finest early apple yet known. It begins to ripen about the 

 first of July, and continues in use all that month. The smallest col- 

 lection of apples should comprise this and the Red Astrachan. Tree 

 moderately vigorous, upright, spreading. Young shoots reddish brown. 



Fruit medium size. Form roundish, often roundish oblate, isediaffl- 

 SEs&r- Skin very smooth, with a few faint white dots, bright straw-color 

 when fully ripe. Stalk half to three-fourths of an inch long, rather 

 slender, inserted in a hollow of moderate depth. Calyx set in a shal- 



