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BEITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. 



THE APPLE.— ITS VARIETIES. 



1. ACKLAM'S RUSSET.— Fors. 



Identification.— Fors. Treat. 92. Lhid. Guide, 85. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, h. 733, 

 Synontme. — Aclemy Eusset, Gibs. Fr. Gard. 359. 



Fruit, below the medium size, two inches and a quarter wide, and two 

 inches high ; round and somewhat flattened. Skin, pale yellow tinged 

 with green, and covered with thin grey russet, particularly on the side 

 exposed to the sun. Eye, small and closed, set in a smooth, round, and 

 shallow basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a moderately deep cavity. Flesh, 

 white with a greenish tinge, firm, crisp, juicy, and highly flavoured. 



An excellent dessert apple of first-rate quality ; ripe in November, 

 and will keep under favourable cirQumstances till March. 



The tree is very hardy, and an excellent bearer. It succeeds best in 

 a dry soil, and is well adapted for espalier training. 



This variety is supposed to have originated at the village of Acklam, 

 in Yorkshire. 



2. ADAMS'S PEARMAIN.— Lind. 

 Identification. — Lind. Guide, 60. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 529. 



Synontme. — Norfollc Pippin, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1, 685. 



Figure. — Pom. Mag. t. 133. 



Fruit, large, varying from two inches and a half to three inches high 



and about the 

 same in breadth at 

 the widest part ; 

 pearmain - shaped, 

 very even, and 

 regularly formed. 

 Skin, pale yellow 

 tinged with green, 

 and covered with 

 delicate russet on 

 the shaded side ; 

 but deep yellow 

 tinged with red, 

 and delicately 

 streaked with live- 

 lier red on the side 

 next the sun. Eye, 

 small and open, 

 with acute erect 

 segments, set in 

 a narrow, round, 

 and plaited basin. 

 Stalk, varying from 

 half an inch to an 

 inch long, oblique- 

 ly inserted in a 

 sl^allow cavity, and generally with a fleshy protuberance on one side of 



