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excellent qualities for the dessert and for cooking, and its pro- 
ductiveness, 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 collection of apples should comprise 
this and the Red Astrachan. Form round, above medium size, 
rarely a little flattened. Skin very smooth, with a few faint 
white dots, bright straw colour 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 shallow basin. Flesh very 
white, tender and juicy, crisp, with a rich, sprightly, sub-acid 
flavour. The young trees of moderate vigour, with scarcely di- 
verging shoots. Manning errs by following Coxe in calling this 
a flat apple. Bracken may prove the same. 
Cogswell. 
Cogswell Pearmain. 
This excellent apple originated on the farm of Fred. Brewster, 
Town of Griswold, near Norwich, Conn., and where known is 
much esteemed and stands unrivalled as a dessert fruit of its sea- 
son, a vigorous, upright grower and an abundant bearer every 
other year, fruit very uniform in size, fair and beautiful, and ? 
desirable fruit. 
