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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Amos viii. A Beholde, there was a mounde with sommer frute.

1587 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnius Herbal for Bible xliii. 216 By this metaphor of rath ripe fruit or sommer apples, which will not long continue without rotting, he sheweth that destruction is neere at hand.

1604 N. F. Fruiterers Secrets 7 But if you haue Peares that you make any account of, that are summer Peares,..still gather the ripest, & so by degrees at your pleasure.

1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 593 The bloud red peare is of a darke red colour on the outside, but piercing very little into the inner pulpe. The Hony peare is a long greene Summer peare.

1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 168 The Denny-pear, Prussia-pear, Summer-Poppering,..are all very good Table-fruit.

1724 Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 231 The Apple, that produces the Molosses, is a Summer-Sweeting.

1795 J. Jay Let. 12 Dec. in Columbia Libr. Columns (1970) XIX. iii. 43 Ten are Summer Pippins, a very large fair Yellow apple.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 190/1 Summer golden pippin. Summer Thorle.

1854 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 352/1 Fructus Horæi, summer-fruits; as cherries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, strawberries, etc.

1870 J. W. McClung Minnesota xi. 154 Among the varieties [of apples]..are..Summer Pairmain, [etc.].

1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel ii. 145 They ate sweet summerapples.

1998 D. A. Trigg Salt of Earth 126 Both the winter and the summer Blenheim were very popular eating apples of the old variety, and were good keepers.