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BRITISH POMOLOGY, ETC. 



360. TOREK'S INCOMPARABLE. 



Fruit, very large, three inches and three quarters broad, and two 

 inches and three quarters high, in shape, very much resembling the 

 Gooseberry Apple ; ovate, broad and flattened at the base, and with five 

 prominent ribs on the sides which render it distinctly five-sided. Skin, 

 smooth and shining, of a beautiful dark green, which assumes a yellowish 

 tinge as it ripens ; and with a slight trace of red, marked with a few 

 crimson streaks, where exposed to the sun. Eye, large, and nearly 

 closed, with broad flat segments, set in a saucer-like basin, which is 

 surrounded with knobs, formed by the termination of the ribs. Stalk, 

 a quarter of an inch long, inserted in a wide cavity, which is lined with 

 a little rough russet. Flesh, yellowish, firm, crisp, tender, juicy, and 

 marrow-like, with a brisk and pleasant acid. 



A first-rate culinary apple, grown in the Kentish orchards, about 

 Sittingbourne and Faversham ; in use from November to Christmas. 



361. TOWER OF GLAMMIS.— Hort. 



Identification. — Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 835. Leslie & Anders. Cat. 43. Caled 

 Hort. Soc. Mem. vol. iv. 474. 



Stnonymes. — Glammis Castle, ace. Hort. Soc. Cat. Late Carse of Gowrie, Ibid. 

 Carse of Gowrie, Caled. Hort. Soc. Mem, vol. i. 325. The Gowrie, in Clydesdale 

 Orchards. 



Fruit, large ; conical, and distinctly four-sided, with four prominent 



angles, extending from the base to the apex, where they terminate in 

 four corresponding ridges. Skin, deep sulphur-yellow, tinged in some 



