Plate XIX. 
i. SUMMER STRAWBERRY. 
The origin of this apple is not known. It is much cultivated in all the Lancashire and 
Northern Orchards of England, and is gradually extending into the special apple districts. 
Description. —Fruit: rather below medium size, two and a half inches broad, and an inch and 
three quarters high ; oblate, even and regularly formed. Skin : smooth and shining, striped all over 
with yellow and blood-red stripes, except on any portion that is shaded, and then it is red. Eye : 
prominent, not at all depressed, closed with long flat segments, and surrounded with prominent plaits. 
Stalk : three quarters of an inch long, inserted in a round narrow cavity, which is lined with russet. 
Flesh : white, tinged with yellow, soft, tender, juicy, brisk and pleasantly flavoured. 
A good dessert apple, ripe in September and October, but when long kept it becomes dry and 
mealy. 
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