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145. GOLDEN MONDAY.— Switz. 



Synonyme. — Monstow's Pepping, Ditt. Handb. iii. 41. 



Fruit, small, about two inches and a half wide, and two inches high ; 

 roundish, inclining to oblate. Skin, smooth, pale grass green on the 

 shaded side ; but fine clear golden yellow dotted with crimson dots, on 

 the side exposed to the sun, and in some parts marked with ramifica- 

 tions of very thin delicate brown russet, which generally issue from the 

 basin of the eye. Eye, small, and rather open, with narrow, acute, and 

 stiff segments, set in a narrow and plaited basin. Stalk, very short, not 

 a quarter of an inch long, quite embedded in a narrow, round, and rather 

 deep cavity, which, with the base, is covered with very thick and rough 

 scaly russet. Flesh, yellowish-white, crisp, not very juicy, sugary, brisk, 

 and perfumed, not unlike the flavor of the Golden Pippin. 



A very excellent dessert apple of first-rate quality ; in use from Octo- 

 ber to Christmas. 



I do not know what the Golden Mundi of Forsyth is, which he describes 

 as a fine handsome apple, beautifully streaked with red ; but that now 

 described is the Golden Monday of the Berkshire orchards, and the same 

 as has been cultivated in the Brompton Park nursery for upwards of a 

 hundred years. 



The Golden Russet is sometimes called by the name of Golden Mon- 

 day, but it is a very distinct variety from this. 



146. GOLDEN NOBLE.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort. Trans, vol. iv., p. 524. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 280. 

 Lind. Guide, 49. 



Fruit, large ; round, and narrowing towards the eye, handsome. Skin < 

 smooth, clear bright yellow, without any blush of red, but a few smaU 

 redish spots and small patches of russet. Eye, small, set in a round and 

 deep basin, surrounded with plaits. Stalk, short, with a fleshy growth 

 on one side of it, which connects it with the fruit. Flesh, yellow, ten- 

 der, with a pleasant acid juice, and baking of a clear amber color, per- 

 fectly melting, with a rich acidity. 



A valuable culinary apple ; in use from September to December. 



This was first brought into notice by Sir Thomas Harr, of Stowe Hall, 

 Norfolk, whose gardener procured it from a tree supposed to be the ori- 

 ginal, in an old orchard at Downham, and communicated it to the Hor- 

 ticultural Society of London, in 1820. 



147. GOLDEN PEARMAIN.— Fors. 



Identification. — Fors. Treat. 103. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 542. Lind. Guide, 70 

 Synonyme. — Ruckman's Pearmain, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1, 755. 

 Figure. — Ron. Pyr. Mai. pi. xxiii. f. 6. 



Fruit, medium sized, about two inches and a half in diameter, and the 

 same in height ; abrupt pearmain-shaped, irregularly ribbed on the sides, 

 and uneven at the apex. Skin, pale yellow, strewed with patches of rus- 



