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orey dots. Eye open, not deeply set. Calyx quite short. Stalk about 

 a fourth of an inch long, and inserted in a small cavity. Flesh white, 

 crisp, fine-grained, juicy, and rich. It is a neat dessert apple, in 

 use from November to February. 



The trees make strong upright shoots, thickly set with prominent 

 fruit-buds; foliage dark-green and glossy ; a great bearer. 

 10. Flower of Kent. 



A large Apple from that county, and chiefly valued for baking 

 and culinary purposes. The fruit is of a roundish irregular figure, 

 somewhat flattened and broadest at the base. Skin yellowish green, 

 tinged and striped with dull red on the exposed side. Eye rather 

 small, set in a broad uneven basin. Calyx short, and much con- 

 tracted. Stalk nearly an inch long, and not very deeply inserted. 

 Flesh yellowish green, and abounding with sub-acid juice. It is an 

 excellent cooking Apple, in use through November and December. 



The trees are healthy and good bearers ; but its habit is by far 

 too strong for dwarfing, therefore its proper place is the orchard, 

 planted as a standard. 



11. Gravenstein. 



Synonyms: Grave Slije, Sabine (of some). 



An excellent German Apple, originally from Gravenstein, in 

 Holstein. It is held in high repute in its native country. It fully 

 sustains its character here, although perhaps not quite equal in size 



and colour. The fruit is of the first size, roundish, flattened a little 

 at the ends, and angular about the crown. Skin greenish yellow, 

 tinged and striped with orange red, and mottled with a deeper colour, 

 intermixed at times with soft cinnamon russet. Stalk short, thick, and 



