This fruit is more long than round, of a light green color, slightly tinged with red. The pulp is breaking, with much pleasant juice. As the fruit ripen gradually, they may be gathered as wanted, for some time. It ripens about the end of August. The tree is a good bearer in any shape.--_Rog. Fr. Cult._ 34. 529. EARLY POMEROY. A medium sized dessert apple, of second-rate quality, it is of conical shape, striped with red, and ripe in October.--_H. S. C._ p. 32. 530. EARLY RED. A large kitchen apple, of second-rate quality, oblate shape, and red color; it is in use during September and October.--_H. S. C._ n. 231. 531. EARLY STRAWBERRY. SYNONYME.--American Red Juneating. A beautiful variety, which is said to have originated in the neighbourhood of New-York, and appears in the markets there about the middle of July. Its sprightly flavor, agreeable perfume, and fine appearance, place it among the very finest summer apples. It is quite distinct from the Early Red Margaret, which has no fragrance, and a short stem. Fruit, roundish, narrowing towards the eye. Skin, smooth, and fair, finely striped and stained with bright and dark red on a yellowish-white ground. Stalk, an inch and a half long, rather slender and uneven, inserted in a deep cavity. Calyx, rather small, in a shallow, narrow basin. Flesh, white, slightly tinged with red next the skin, tender, sub-acid, and very sprightly and brisk in flavor, with an agreeable aroma.--_Down. Fr. Amer._ 73. 532. EDEL KÖNIG. SYNONYME.--Roi Très Noble. Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and three inches high; calville-shaped. Skin, yellowish-green, but for the most part covered with beautiful crimson, which, on the side next the sun, is of a deep purple, approaching to black. Eye, closed, with long green segments, set in a shallow, ribbed, and plaited basin, round which are eight or ten prominent ribs, which extend down the sides even to the stalk, which render the form of the fruit very irregular. Stalk, thick, and often very fleshy, an inch to an inch and a half long, inserted in a deep, wide, and russety cavity. Flesh, white, tender, juicy, tinged with pink, of a rich, sugary, and raspberry flavor. An excellent German culinary apple, of first-rate quality; it is in use from October till November.--_Diel Kernobst._ ii. 1. 533. EDINBURGH CLUSTER. SYNONYME.--Sir Walter Blacket’s Favorite. A medium sized kitchen apple of second-rate quality, ovate shape, and yellow color; it is in use from November till January.--_H. S. C._ n. 235. 534. EGGERMONT’S CALVILLE.