THE APPLE. ITS VARIETIES. 



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next the sun. Eye, small and closed, with short segments, and set in a 

 narrow and angular basin. Stalk, short, inserted in a wide and deep 



cavity, which, with the base, is entirely covered with rough brown 

 russet. Flesh, yellowish, tender, and juicy, with a pleasant sub-acid 

 flavor. 



A valuable and now well-known culinary apple, in use from October 

 to February. When well grown the Beauty of Kent is perhaps the most 

 magnificent apple in cultivation. Its great size, the beauty of its color- 

 ing, the tenderness of the flesh, and profusion of delicate sub-acid juice, 

 constitute it one of our most popular winter apples, for cidinary pur- 

 poses, and one of the most desirable and useful, either for a small garden, 

 or for more extended cultivation. 



The tree is a strong and vigorous grower, attains a large size, and is 

 a good bearer ; but I have always found it subject to canker when grown 

 on the paradise stock, and in soils which are moist and heavy. 



I have not been able to ascertain the time when, or the place where 

 this variety originated. It is first noticed by Forsyth in his Treatise on 

 Fruit Trees, but is not enumerated in any of the nurserymen's cata- 

 logues, either of the last, or the early part of the present, century. It 

 was introduced to the Brompton Park Nursery, about the year 1820, 

 and is now as extensively cultivated as most other leading varieties. In 

 America, Downing says, " the fruit in this climate is one of the most 

 magnificent of all apples, frequently measuring sixteen or eighteen inches 

 in circumference." 

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