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l5niTIS;iI POMOLOGY, ETC. 



only on account of its excellence, but for the long period during which 

 it is in perfection ; it comes into use in October and November, and 

 continues in good condition till March. 



A communication of 

 some importance has 

 been forwarded to me 

 by Mr. Cameron of 

 Uckfield, by whom this 

 variety was first propa- 

 gated. He says the 

 fruit should be allowed 

 to hang late on the tree 

 before it is gathered, so 

 as to secure its peculiar 

 richness of flavor, and 

 long period of duration ; 

 for if gathered too soon, 

 it looses much of its fine 

 richness and is very 

 apt to shrivel. 



The tree does not 

 attain a large size, but 

 is perfectly hardy, and 

 an early and excellent 

 bearer ; young trees, only two or three years from the graft, producing a 

 considerable crop of handsome, well-grown fruit. 



This esteemed variety originated about the year 1770, in a garden 

 now in the possession of Mr. Mannington, a respectable butcher at Uck- 

 field in Sussex. At the time it was raised the garden belonged to Mr. 

 Turley, a blacksmith, and grandfather of Mr. Mannington. The original 

 tree grew up at the root of a hedge, where the refuse from a cider press 

 had been thrown ; it never attained any great size, but continued to 

 preserve a stunted, and diminutive habit of growth, till it died about the 

 year 1820. Previous to this, however, grafts had been freely distributed 

 to persons in the neighbourhood, many of whom were anxious to possess 

 such a desideratum ; but it does not seem to have been known beyond its 

 own locality, till the autumn of 1847, when Mr. Mannington caused 

 specimeris of the fruit to be forwarded to the London Horticultural Society, 

 and by whom it was pronounced to be a dessert fruit of the highest ex- 

 cellence. It was designated by Mr. Thompson "Mannington's Pearmain." 



221. MARGARET.— Rea. 



Identification.— Kea. Pom. 209. Eaii. Hist. ii. 1447. Lang. Puni. 134, t.lxxiv. 

 fig. 1. Eog. Fr. Cult. 30. Fors. Treat. 114. 



Synonymes.— Early Red Margaret, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 425. Lind. Guide, 8. 

 I)nw7i. Fr. Amer. 73. Early Red Juneatiiig, Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 1, 504. Red 

 Juiieating, ace. Horl. Soc. Cat. Striped Juneatiiig, Ibid. ed. 1, 506. Early 

 Striped Juneating, Ibid. Striped Quarrenden, Ibid, ed. 1, 823. Summer 

 Traveller, Ibid, 10S3. Eve Apple, In Ireland, ace. Robertson in Hort. Trans, iii. 

 452. Early Margaret, arc. Hort. Soc. Git. Marget-Apiile, Meager. Eny. Card. 

 jMaudlin, Sioitz. Fr. Gard. 135. Magdalene, Gib.9. Fr. Gard. 352. Marguerite, 

 ace. Hort. Soc. Cat. Lammas, ace. Fors. Treat. 



