. The American fruit culturist. dish, oblate ; yellow, striped, andsplashed with red ; cavity acute ; stem short; basin wide, shallow,corrugated; flesh white, firm, juicy, mild, quality good. Sum-mer. Fig. 355. Russian. APPLES. 299 Section II.—Not striped. Golden Sweet.* Medium or rather large, roundish, slightly flat-tened ; greenish, becoming pale yellow; stalk an inch or morelong, slender; cavity acuminate; basin moderate; flesh verysweet, good, of moderate quality. The fruit is always fair, thetree a free grower, and very productive. Buds large; leavessharply serrate. Late in summer. Valua
. The American fruit culturist. dish, oblate ; yellow, striped, andsplashed with red ; cavity acute ; stem short; basin wide, shallow,corrugated; flesh white, firm, juicy, mild, quality good. Sum-mer. Fig. 355. Russian. APPLES. 299 Section II.—Not striped. Golden Sweet.* Medium or rather large, roundish, slightly flat-tened ; greenish, becoming pale yellow; stalk an inch or morelong, slender; cavity acuminate; basin moderate; flesh verysweet, good, of moderate quality. The fruit is always fair, thetree a free grower, and very productive. Buds large; leavessharply serrate. Late in summer. Valuable for culinary pur-poses. Tender far West; succeeds well Southwest. Connecti-cut. Fig. 359. Hightop.* (Summer Sweet of Ohio, Sweet June.) Rather small,roundish, regular; skin smooth, light yellow; cavity deep, nar-row ; calyx small, in a shallow, slightly furrowed basin ; fleshyellowish, very sweet, rich: tree upright, productive. A valua-ble summer sweet apple at the West. Massachusetts. Fig. 353. Fig. 351.—Sweet Fig. 353. Fig. 354- Fig- 352. Hightop Sweeting. Early Harvest. American Summer Pearmain. Manomet. (Manomet Sweeting.) Size medium, roundish ; yello\y,with a rich cheek; stalk rather slender, cavity shallow; basinshallow, furrowed; flesh tender, sweet, rich. Late Sweet Bough.* (Large Yellow Bough, Early Sweet Bough.)Large, roundish, remotely conical-ovate, sometimes distinctlyconical; pale greenish yellow, stalk one-half to an inch long;basin narrow, deep ; flesh white, very tender, with an excellentsweet flavor. Ripens from the middle to the end of moderate and regular bearer. Shoots yellowish, somewhatirregular, ascending ; tree round-headed ; leaves obtusely SSI-Class II.—With more or less I.—Striped with red. American Summer Pearmain.* (Early Summer Pearmain, of Coxe.)Medium in size, oblong, slightly inclining to truncate-conical;nearly covered with fine broken streaks and dots of red; s
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