250 Descriptions of Select Varieties of Apples. 



open cavity : Eye, large, open, and moderately depressed in 

 a very broad, open, somewhat farrowed hollow ; segments of 

 the calyx very short : Flesh, yellowish, fine, crisp, and ten- 



Fig. 26. Peck's Pleasant. 



der : Juice, plentiful, pleasantly acid, sprightly, with a rich, 

 high flavor : Core, medium size, close : Seeds, small. Ripe 

 from November to March. 



XVIII. Beauty of Kent. Hort. Soc. Catalogue, 3d. Ed. 1842. 



Among the few English apples which maintain a place — 

 or deserve to — in American orchards, the Beauty of Kent 

 holds the very highest rank. In size, scarcely equalled — in 

 color rich and brilliant — and, though not quite up to the mark 

 of a first quality fruit, it possesses a tender flesh, a pleasant, 

 refreshing, subacid juice, and, valued for the table and 

 kitchen together, it has few equals of its season. We have 

 seen specimens sixteen inches in circumference. 



The Beauty of Kent, {fig. 27,) is a variety which has 

 been cultivated many years, and Lindley, in his description 

 of it, states that, though not distinguished by " any pecu- 

 liar richness of flavor, it certainly must be reckoned a very 



