_Synonyms_: Joanneting, Juniting, Gennetting, Primiting, May of
Virginia, Jennetting, Juneting, May Pippin, Caroline, Early May, Owen's
Golden Beauty, Juneating, Ginetting, Early Jennetting, Yellow May,
Carolina.
This is an old variety, mentioned by Evelyn in 1660, and described by
Ray in 1688, and is a very tolerable little apple, ripening among the
very earliest, during the last of June and the first of July. It is very
distinct from the Early Harvest, sometimes called by this name. Tree a
moderate grower, and forms a roundish, upright, spreading head.
Productive. Fruit small, round, a little flattened. Calyx closed. Stalk
rather long and slender. Pale green at first, light yellow with
sometimes a faint blush on the sunny side. Flesh crisp and of a pleasant
flavor, but soon becomes dry. Good.