THE PLORAL WORLD 
AND 
GARDEN GUIDE. 
THE WORCESTER PEARMAIN APPLE. 
(With a Coloured Illustration.) 
goss HE beautiful apple here figured has been freely exhibited 
Hi in the past few years, and the appointed judges of fruit 
at all our great exhibitions have had many opportunities 
to judge of its merits. Everywhere it has been pro- 
———— nounced a grand acquisition for its fine qualities as a 
table fruit, its exquisite beauty and consequent value for decorative 
purposes, and the immense productiveness of the tree. The stock 
of this fine apple is in the hands of Mr. Richard Smith of Worcester, 
who is sending it out at a cheap rate, so that those who want it may 
as well buy at once, as wait until it ranks in price with commoner 
kinds, which cannot happen for several years. The fruit is of 
medium size, distinctly conical, very even and neat in outline, with 
a highly polished skin of a fiery crimson colour. The flesh is white, 
tender, of an agreeable balsamic flavour, and ‘sufficiently sweet. It 
is in season from September to Christmas. 
t may be of some service to our readers to add to the foregoing. 
notice of the Worcester Pearmain apple a list of 
THE HANDSOMEST APPLES AND PEARS. 
The letters L, M, and s, mean large, medium, and small, 
AppLEs.—Red Astrachan, M, yellow and red, August. White 
Calwville, u, yellow, tender, January. Court of Wick, s, yellow and 
russet, rich, October. Cow’s Orange Pippin, M, yellow streaked red, 
November. Coxz’s Pomona, t, yellow streaked crimson, tender, 
October. Devonshire Quarrenden, M, crimson, crisp, August. Fairy, 
s, red and yellow, sweet, October. Golden Harvey, s, yellow and 
russet, December. Golden Pippin, 8, yellow, rich, December. Grange’s 
Pearmain, t, yellow, tender, December. Nonpareil, m, yellow and 
russet, rich, February. Northern Spy, t, yellow streaked red, tender, 
January. Reinetie du Canada, large, brown-yellow, firm, December. 
Mere de Ménagé, \arge, red, firm, November. Golden Winter Pear- 
main, M, yellow and red, tender and delicious, November to January. 
- January. i 
