. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. APP 44 —?- APP obscure the ground colour. Flesh yel- low, rich and aromatic. Stem long, deeply planted. Ripe in August, but fit for cooking in July. Coxe describes it as an apple of the finest quality^ and of uncommonly beautiful appearance. It is certainly a superior dessert fruit; its sprightly aroma is agreeable to most palates, and makes it a popular apple in the Philadelphia market. Fig. 1.—(P. 43.). Summer Pearmain. Coxe. (Fig. 2.) This is unquestionably the finest apple of its season, possessing more of the character of the pear than an ord
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. APP 44 —?- APP obscure the ground colour. Flesh yel- low, rich and aromatic. Stem long, deeply planted. Ripe in August, but fit for cooking in July. Coxe describes it as an apple of the finest quality^ and of uncommonly beautiful appearance. It is certainly a superior dessert fruit; its sprightly aroma is agreeable to most palates, and makes it a popular apple in the Philadelphia market. Fig. 1.—(P. 43.). Summer Pearmain. Coxe. (Fig. 2.) This is unquestionably the finest apple of its season, possessing more of the character of the pear than an ordinary apple; its appearance is by no means prepossessing, and those who look to exteriors only would pass it by unno- ticed. The colour is usually dull red, slightly streaked and spotted, occasion- ally in the sun of a brighter hue. Coxe says it has proved well adapted to light lands, and correctly describes it as singularly tender, bursting from its own weight, when falling. The outline is oblong, uniformly regular; stem and calyx deeply seated; ripe in August and September. Woolman's Harvest. (Striped Harvest.) (Fig. 3.) This apple is known in New Jersey as above ; its ori- gin is obscure, nor have we found it described by any American authority. The size is much below medium, weigh- ing scarcely two ounces. Ground colour a delicate whitish yellow, beautifully streaked and pencilled with bright red of different depths, giving it rather an artificial aspect, as though an artist had coloured it to suit his fancy; flesh white, crisp and tender, juicy, but not rich:— its early maturity commends it to notice; ripe in July. Maiden's Blush. Coxe. (Fig. 4.) There is not, perhaps, a more popular summer apple in the Philadelphia mar- ket than this; it ripens in August, and is in fruitful seasons abundant until the first of October. The size is above me- dium ; skin smooth,yellow, with a lively carmine cheek; the general outline is flattened. Flesh white, tender, admi- rably adapt
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