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THE APPLE. 
Large Yellow Bough. Thomp. 
Early Sweet Bough. Kenrick. 
Sweet Harvest. 
Bough. Coxe. Floy. 
A native apple, ripening in harvest time, and one of the first 
quality, only second as a dessert fruit to the Early Harvest. It 
is not so much esteemed for the kitchen as the latter, as it is too 
sv. r eet for pies and sauce, but it is generally much admired for 
the table, and is worthy of a place in every collection. 
Fruit above the middle size, and oblong-ovate in form. Skin 
smooth, pale, greenish yellow. Stalk rather long, and the eye 
narrow and deep. Flesh white, very tender and crisp when fully 
ripe, and with a rich, sweet, sprightly flavour. Ripens from the 
middle of July to the tenth of August. Tree moderately vigo- 
rous, bears abundantly, and forms a round head. 
Long Stem of Pennsylvania. 
Origin Berks county, Pa. Fruit rather below medium, glo- 
bular, inclining to oblong or oval. Stalk long and slender, 
curved, inserted in a large cavity. Calyx small and closed, set in 
a somewhat furrowed basin. Skin yellowish, very much shaded, 
and sometimes striped with red or dark crimson. Flesh tender, 
juicy, crisp, with a fine rich, sub-acid flavour, spicy and aroma- 
tic. An excellent dessert fruit of the highest flavour; core 
large and open. November to January. 
