. American horticultural manual .. . ned; surface golden yellow mostly covered with bright red,striped, splashed, and mottled with rosy crimson, a handsome fruit:dots obscure, many, minute, white; cavity deep, regular, narrow,acuminate, with a little stellate russet; st(>m short or medium; basinvery shallow, narrow, slightly wrinkled; calyx closed; segments erectconvergent. Core open, long, tapering to Ijoth ends; cells elli])tical;tulie conical; stamens median; se-d, large, many, ]i!unip; lleshyellow, coarse grained, subarid, good. .Tvily and August. Early Ripe.—Supposed origin,
. American horticultural manual .. . ned; surface golden yellow mostly covered with bright red,striped, splashed, and mottled with rosy crimson, a handsome fruit:dots obscure, many, minute, white; cavity deep, regular, narrow,acuminate, with a little stellate russet; st(>m short or medium; basinvery shallow, narrow, slightly wrinkled; calyx closed; segments erectconvergent. Core open, long, tapering to Ijoth ends; cells elli])tical;tulie conical; stamens median; se-d, large, many, ]i!unip; lleshyellow, coarse grained, subarid, good. .Tvily and August. Early Ripe.—Supposed origin, Pennsylvania; tree a free growerand productive. THE APPLE. 75 Fniit modiuni, roumlish oblate; surface pale yellow; dots few;gray; eavity slightly russeted; stem long; calyx small, closed; fleshwhite, tender, juicy, subacid, good. August. Early Strawberry.—Origin, New York; tree tlnifty, very u))riglitwhile young, spreading and large with age, c|uite distinct frcjm theEarbj Red Margaret, A\hich has no fragrance, and a short Early Strawberry. Fruit small, roundish, conical, rarely angular; surface smoothand fair, often polislied, yellow, mostly covered with mixed red withbright and dark crimson strijjes; dots very few, minute, obscure;cavitv deep, regular; stem long, rather slender, sometimes knobbedand uneven; basin narrow, shallow, folded or plaited; calyx rathersmall; segments divergent. Core regular, closed, not meeting; seedsmany, plump; flesh whitish yellow, slightly tinged with red next tothe skin, tender, sitrightly, brisk, agreeable aromatic subacid, verygood. July, Septemljcr. EngUsh Russet.—Origin unknown: a profitable market variety;tree ujiriglit, very productive. Fruit medium or beloM, roundish, obscurely conical, very regular; 76 SYSTEMATIC POMOLOGY. surface pale greenish 3ellon, more or less covered with bronze russet,sometimes wholly russeted; cavity narrow, medium, regular; stemmedium; basin smooth, medium, regular; calyx small, closed. Fleshyellowi
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