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wide cavity. Flesh, pale yellowish-white, tender, juicy, sweet, and 

 briskly flavored. 



An excellent apple, either for culinary or dessert use. 



In the northern counties it is a popular and highly esteemed variety, 

 and ranks as a first-rate fruit. It is in use from October to December. 



The tree is hardy and healthy ; it does not attain a large size, but is 

 an abundant bearer. When grown against a wall, as it is sometimes in 

 the North of England, and border counties, the fruit attains a large size, 

 and is particularly handsome and beautiful. 



This variety was first discovered growing in the garden of a shoe- 

 maker, at Keswick, named Greenup, and was first cultivated and made 

 public by Clarke and Atkinson, nurserymen at that place about fifty 

 years ago. It is now much cultivated throughout the border counties, 

 and is a valuable apple where the more choice varieties do not attain 

 perfection. 



160. GREY LEADINGTON.— Gibs. 



Identification. — Gibs. Fr. Gard. 354. Nicol. Villa. Gard. 31. Fors. Treat. 1 1 1. 

 Hort. Soc. Cat.ed. 3, n. 401. 



SvNONVMES. — Leadington's Grauer Pipping, Diel Kernohsi. x. 144. Gray Lead- 

 ington Pippin, Ibid. 



Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and the same in 

 height ; oblong or conical, and slightly angular on the sides. Skin, 

 greenish-yellow, covered with cinnamon-colored russet, on the shaded 

 side, and pale red when exposed to the sun ; the whole covered with 

 whitish-grey dots. Eye, large and open, with long acuminate segments, 

 and set in a rather deep basin. Stalk, short and stout, inserted in a 

 pretty deep cavity. Flesh, white, firm, tender, very juicy, and of a rich, 

 vinous, sugary, and aromatic flavor. 



An excellent apple of first-rate quality, desirable either for the dessert 

 or for culinary purposes ; it is in use from September to January. 



The tree is a strong grower, vigorous, hardy, and an excellent bearer. 

 It succeeds well as a dwarf on the paradise stock. 



This is a favorite apple in Scotland, where it ranks among the best 

 dessert fruits. 



161. GROS FAROS.— Duh. 



Identification. — Duh. Arb. Fruit, i. 385. Scliab. Prat. ii. 90. Hort. Soc Cat. 

 ed. 3, n. 244. 



Synontme. — Faros, ace. Hort. Soc. Cat. 



Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and two inches high ; 

 roundish and flattened, broadest at the base, and narrowing towards the 

 eye, sometimes slightly angled. Skin, smooth, pale greenish-yellow, with 

 a few streaks of red where shaded ; and entirely covered with red, which 

 is striated with deeper red where exposed to the sun. Eye, small and 

 open, set in a narrow, round, and rather deep basin. Stalk, half-an-inch 

 long, inserted in a wide and deep cavity, which is lined with dark brown 

 russet. Flesh, greenish-white, crisp, firm, juicy, sweet, slightly acid, and 

 perfumed. 



