THE APPLE 



-ITS VARIETIES. 



41 



iuequalities. 



Skin, shining, pale waxen yellow in the shade, and bright 



deep red next the sun ; it is 

 strewed with dots, which 

 are yellowish on the sunny 

 side, and brownish in the 

 shade, and marked with 

 veins and slight traces of 

 delicate, yellowish - grey 

 russet. Eye, large and 

 open, with long reflexed 

 segments, placed in a ra- 

 ther deep, round, and pretty 

 even basin. Stalk, short 

 and slender, inserted in a 

 narrow, even, and shallow 

 cavity, which is lined with 

 thin russet. Flesh, white 

 with a yellowish tinge, 

 crisp and delicate, brisk, juicy, and sugary, and with a rich, vinous, and 

 aromatic flavor. 



A dessert apple of the first quality, in use from November to January. 

 The tree is a free grower and very hardy, not subject to canker, and 

 attains the largest size. It is very prolific when it has acquired its full 

 growth, which, in good soil, it will do in fifteen or twenty years ; and 

 even in a young state it is a good bearer. If grafted on the paradise 

 stock it may be grown as an open dwarf, or an espalier. The bloom 

 is very hardy, and withstands the night frosts of spring better than 

 most other varieties. 



This, above all other apples, is the most highly esteemed in Germany. 

 Diel calls it the Pride of the Germans. It is believed to have originated 

 either at a village of Misnia, called Borsdorf, or at a place of the same 

 name near Leipsic. According to Forsyth, it was such a favorite with 

 Queen Charlotte, that she had a considerable quantity of them annually 

 imported from Germany, for her own private use. It is one of the earliest 

 recorded varieties of the continental authors, but does not seem to have 

 been known in this country before the close of the last century. It was 

 first grown in the Brompton Park Nursery in 1785. It is mentioned by 

 Cordus, in 1561, as being cultivated in Misnia ; which circumstance 

 has no doubt given rise to the S3aionyme " Reinette de Misnie ;" he 

 also informs us it is highly esteemed for its sweet and generous flavor, 

 and the pleasant perfume which it exhales. Wittichius, in his " Metho- 

 dus Simplicium," attributes to it the power of dispelling epidemic fevers 

 and madness ! 



38. BOSSOM.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort. Trans, vol. iv., 528. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 75. Lind. 

 Guide, 64. 



Fruit, large and conical ; handsomely and regularly formed. Skin, 

 pale greenish yellow, considerably covered with russet, and occasionally 

 marked with bright red next the sun. Eye, set in a shallow and plaited 



