OF SUMMER APPLES. 
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B. Ends unequal. 
8. DRAP D’OR. 
Vrai drap d’Or, Dech. Late Summer Pippin. Bay Apple and Bonne de Mai, Thompson. Hudson Summer Pippin of 
some writers. 
Fruit large, roundish, narrowing from the base to the crown. Skin smooth, fair, of a gold 
color, and marked with distinct brown specks. Stem short, and moderately sunk in the 
depression. Crown surrounds a shallow basin whose form is irregularly plaited. Flesh 
crisp and juicy, pleasant. 
9. SUMMER GOLDEN PIPPIN ( Thomson , Lindley, P. Mag.). 
Fruit below the medium size, ovate, compressed at the crown, whose depression is rather 
wide and shallow. Color bright yellow, suffused on the sunny side with an orange blush. 
Flesh yellowish, firm, crisp. 
This apple is considered by Downing as inferior to many others which ripen in August. 
10. WHITE JUNEATING. 
Fruit below the medium size, roundish, circular : depressions shallow. Stem long and 
slender. Color first greenish, then yellow, and finally the sunny side has a faint blush. 
The flesh is crisp and pleasant. 
The apple ripens early in July, and is an excellent bearer. Very good, but not regarded 
as the best. 
11. WHITE ASTRACAN. 
White Astracan, Thompson, Lindley. Pyrus Astracanica, Transparent Muscovie, Glace de Zclande of the French 
gardeners. 
This apple is not regarded as worthy of cultivation. It is conical, somew'hat ribbed on the 
sides, and also in the depression of the crowm. Skin smooth, w'hite, wfith a white bloom 
and a few faint stripes of red. Flesh white, tender, rather dry, and disposed to become 
mealy and water-cored. Ripens early in August. 
12. RED QUARENDEN {Lindley). 
Sack Apple. 
Fruit scarcely reaching the medium size, roundish ovate, flattened and slightly narrowed 
at the crown, which has a very shallow’ depression. Color subcarmine, with a roundish 
spot of green on the sunny side, and dotted with green. 
Ripens early in August, and continues into September. It is a fine desert apple, and 
nearly equals in beauty the Red Astracan. 
[Agricultural Report—V on. iit.] 
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