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THE APPLE. 
yellow, shaded with a delicate crimson blush, and sprinkled 
with green and greyish dots. Stalk varies in length and thick- 
ness, inserted in a deep abrupt cavity. Calyx closed, set in a 
deep, abrupt, corrugated basin. Flesh white, tender, moderately 
juicy, with a pleasant, refreshing, sub-acid flavour, valuable for 
culinary uses. Ripens the middle of August, and continues a 
month or more. 
Summer Bellflower. 
Origin, farm of J. R. Comstock, Dutchess Co., N. Y. Tree 
vigorous, upright, productive. 
Fruit medium or above, oval, inclining to conic. Skin 
smooth, clear yellow, with rarely a faint orange blush on the 
side of the sun. Stalk an inch long, stout at its insertion in a 
shallow cavity. Calyx closed, with small reflexed segments, set 
in a smooth, but slightly five-sided basin. Flesh white, fine 
grained, tender, with an excellent rich, sub-acid flavour. Mid- 
dle of August to middle of September. (Rort.) 
Summer Bellflower of Pennsylvania, 
Wm. G. Waring, of Boalsburg, Pa., informs us, is quite dis- 
tinct from the above, and very much resembles Yellow Bell- 
flower in shape and colour, but has a very wide and deep 
cavity, and closed calyx. Flesh yellowish white, firm and fine 
texture, not very juicy, with a brisk, agreeable, very pleasant 
flavour, and decidedly the best of its season. Last of August 
and first of September. (W. G. Waring.) 
Superb Sweet. 
Raised by Jacob Deane, Mansfield, Mass. Tree vigorous, pro- 
ductive. 
Fruit rather large, roundish, pale yellow, much red in the 
sun. Stalk long, inserted in a deep cavity. Calyx large, open, 
basin broad. Flesh white, very tender, juicy, sweet, rich, high 
flavoured. September, October. (Cole.) 
Superb. 
Origin, Franklin Co., North Carolina. Tree tolerably vigor- 
ous and a prodigious bearer. 
Fruit medium or above, roundish, oblate, regular. Skin green, 
rarely with a blush. Stalk of medium length, in a shallow 
cavity. Calyx large and open. Flesh yellow, solid, slightly 
coarse grained, rich, and particularly high flavoured. November 
to March. This variety combines as many valuable properties 
as any other. (G. W. Johnson MS.) 
