THE APPLE. ITS VAKTETIES. 



203 



faint streaks of red next the sun, and covered witli a dcHcate white 

 bloom. Eye, closed, set in a narrow and plaited basin. Stalk, thick and 

 short, inserted in a small and very shallow cavity. Flesh, pure white, 

 semi-transparent, with somewhat gelatinous-like blotches, tender, juicy, 

 with a pleasant and refreshing flavor. 



A dessert apple but not of first-rate quality ; ripe in August, and the 

 early part of September. 



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

 The Transparent Apple of Rogers, and the Muscovy Apple of 

 Mortimer, cannot be identical with this variety, for they are described 

 by both as winter apples ; may they not be the Russischer Glasapfel, or 

 Astracanischer Winterapjel of Diel ? 



Respecting this apple, 

 a correspondent in the 

 Gardener's Chronicle, 

 for 1845, has the follow- 

 ing remark, " When at 

 Reval many years ago, 

 I made particular in- 

 quiries as to the mode 

 of cultivation of the 

 Transparent Apple ; I 

 learned that the soil of 

 the apple orchards there, 

 is almost a pure sand, 

 but that it is customary to 

 add to it so much stable 

 manure, that half the 

 bulk of ground may be 

 said to consist of manure. 

 The friend with whom 

 I was staying, had some 

 of these apples at 

 dessert ; they were transparent, not in blotches, but throughout, so that 

 held to the light, the pips may be seen from every part ; these apples 

 were juicy as a peach, about the size of a large one, and of a very 

 agrreeable flavor and texture." 



380. WHITE PARADISE.— -Hort. 



Identification,— Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3, n. 520. 



Synonymes. — Lady's Finger, Hort. Soc. Cat. eel. 1. 533. Long May, Ibid. 563. 

 May, ace. Ibid. Egg, Ron. Cat. Eve, Ron. Pyr. Mai. 4. Paradise Pipi^in, 

 ace. Hort. Soc. Cat. ed. 3. 



Figure. — Eon. Pyr. Mai. pi. ii. f. 5. 



Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and three inches 

 high ; oblong, broader at the base than the apex. Skin, smooth, thick 

 and tough, of a fine rich yellow, thinly and faintly freckled with red on 

 the shaded side, but covered with broken streaks and dots of darker red, 

 interspersed with dark brown russety dots, on the side exposed to the 

 sun. Eye, open, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, an inch long, fleshy at 



