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184. HUNT'S DUKE OF GLOUCESTER —Hort. 



Identification.— Hort. Trans, vol. iv. p. 525. Lind. Guide, 90. Hort. Soc. Cat 

 ed. 3, n. 222. 



Fruit, below medium size ; roundish ovate. Skin, almost entirely 

 covered with thin russet, except a spot on the shaded side, where it is 

 green ; and where exposed to the sun it is of a redish-brown. Flesh, 

 white tinged with green, crisp, juicy, and highly flavored. 



A dessert apple of first-rate quality ; in use from December to 

 February. 



This variety was raised from a seed of the old Nonpareil, to which it 

 bears a strong resemblance, by Dr. Fry of Gloucester, and received the 

 name it now bears, from being sent to the Horticultural Society of Lon- 

 don, by Thomas Hunt Esq., of Stratford-on-Avon, in 1820. Mr. Lindley 

 gives Hunt's Nonpariel as a synonyme of Duke of Gloucester ; but it is 

 a very distinct variety ; it was, however, a seedling raised by Mr. Hunt 

 from the Duke of Gloucester, and is a very first-rate variety. 



185. HUNTHOUSE.— Hort. 

 Identification.— Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 347. Rog. Fr. Cult. 57. 



Fruit, of medium size, two inches and three quarters wide, by two 

 inches and a half high ; conical, ribbed on the sides, and terminated at 

 the apex, with rather prominent knobs. Skin, at first grass-green, but 

 changing as it ripens to greenish-yellow ; where exposed tc the sun it is 

 tinged with red, and marked with small crimson dots and a few short 

 broken streaks of the same color ; but where shaded it is veined with 

 thin brown russet, particularly about the eye, and very thinly strewed 

 with russety dots. Eye, large, half open, with broad flat segments, set 

 in a narrow, and deeply furrowed basin. Stalk, an inch long, straight, in- 

 serted in a very shallow cavity, sometimes between two fleshy lips, but 

 generally with a fleshy protuberance on one side of it. Flesh, greenish- 

 white, firm, tender, and with a brisk, but rather coarse and rough acid 

 flavor. 



A useful culinary apple ; in use from December to March. 



Its chief recommendation is, the immense productiveness of the tree, 

 which is rather small, with pendulous shoots, and extremely hardy ; 

 it succeeds in exposed situations where many other varieties could not 

 grow. Rogers says, "^'it is a tree of the third class in the orchard, and 

 will answer well in exposed situations, trained as dwarfs or half-standards, 

 it being equal in hardihood, and very fit to be planted along with the 

 Grey Leadington." 



This variety was discovered at Whitby, in Yorkshire, where it is exten- 

 sively cultivated. 



186. HUTTON SQUARE.— H. 



Fruit, large ; roundish-ovate, and irregular in its outline, being much 

 bossed on the sides, and knobbed about the eye and the stalk. Skin, 

 .smooth, dull greenish-yellow where shaded, and strewed with minute 



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