CIDER APPLES. 



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SOUTH QUEENING. 



A favourite apple in the Herefordshire Orchards, but it is 

 without any history. A " Queening," doubtless from its irregular 

 and often angular shape, from "coin," or "coign," an angle. 



Description. — Fruit : of medium size, roundish oblong, but of 

 irregular shape. Skin : yellowish green, covered more or less by 

 a blush of crimson, with streaks and marks of deeper colour. 

 Eye : large, and closed, with thick, green, inverted segments, and 

 seated in a narrow plaited basin. Stalk : three quarters of an inch 

 long, inserted apparently on the surface, but really inclosed by the 

 flesh of the apple. Flesh : white and soft, with a sweet acid taste. 



