OF SUMMER APPLES. 
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Class III. Russets and semi-russets. 
Order II. Breadth greater than the height. 
B. Ends unequal. 
16. RUSSELL’S 
Fruit of the medium size, unsymmetrical. 
Stem rather stout, of a medium length, 
and set in a deep depression. Calyx large, 
and set in a shallow depression. Color 
pale yellow on a green ground, and on 
the sunny side a faint blush of red is 
sometimes formed. A fine and beautiful 
russet spreads over a large part of the 
shaded side. Skin warted. Flesh yellow 
and firm grained, rich, sweet and good. 
The tree is robust and strong, and grows 
with an upright open head. Ripens its fruit 
in August (see the Transactions of the Ohio 
Nurserymen and Fruit-growers Convention, 
p. 15, 1848). The description given of the 
fruit leads me to entertain a favorable opinion of the apple, and hence I have given it the 
name of Russell’s Sweet Russet, retaining the name of the gentleman who presented the 
apple. 
17. SUMMER QUEEN (Plate 27, fig. 1). 
Summer Pearmain . 
Fruit of the medium size, elongated, nearly or quite circular. Stem long, and set in a 
deep depression. Calyx rather large, and crowning a tube which extends to the core, 
and which is grown to a plaited depression. Color carmine red, and indistinctly striped 
upon a yellow ground. Flesh yellowish. Core rather large, the seeds occupying only 
about a quarter of the space. Flavor rich, aromatic and fine. 
This apple grows upon a large tree with pendant branches, and ripens early in August. 
The apple is quite broad at the base, and tapers considerably to the crown. 
18. EARLY JOE (Horticulturist). 
Fruit below the medium size, circular and rather flattened, smooth and shining. Stem long, 
and set in a wide basin. Calyx small, and placed in a shallow depression. Color pale 
carmine and striped with deeper, which is quite intense when exposed to the full rays of 
the sun, spotted sparsely with green. Flesh white, tender, juicy : flavor pleasant and 
agreeable : taste subacid. 
The Early Joe is a fine dessert apple, and equal to any in its season. It is a seedling, 
and originated in Western New-York, in the orchard of Oliver Chapin, East Bloomfield. 
It was first brought before the public by William Smith of Macedon, in the Horticulturist 
for February 1847. 
SWEET RUSSET. 
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