214 THE APPLE, 



Fruit medmm, roundish. Color light yellow, shaded with dull red. 

 Flesh white, juicy, pleasant subacid. Good. December to April. 



Herefokdshire Pearmain. 



Koyal Pearmain, of some. Parmin Royal. Old Pearmain. 



Royals d'Angleterre. Parmin. 



An old and popular English Apple, about which, as connected with 

 other Pearmains, there is ranch confusion. The variety we have re- 

 ceived, and grown for many years, is of a strong, vigorous, spreading 

 gi'owth. Young shoots dull grayish brown, slightly downy, moderately 

 strong. 



Fruit medium, roundish conical. Color yellow, shaded, splashed, 

 and marbled with dark red, and thickly sprinkled with conspicuous 

 light areole dots. Stalk short. Cavity medium, slight russet. Calyx 

 pax'tially open. Basin rather abrupt, deep, corrugated. Flesh yellow- 

 ish, crisp, juicy, rich, slightly aromatic, subacid. Very good. Novem- 

 ber to February. 



Herman. 



Origin, farm of Mr. Herman, Cumberland Co., Pa. Tree vigorous 

 and spreading, quite prolific. 



Fruit medium, oblong conic, red striped on green ground. Flesh 

 greenish, tender, juicy, subacid. Good. November to February. 



There is also another Hermann^ which originated at Hermann, Mo., 

 from seed of Rawles Janet. Tree a fine grower, upright, and very 

 prodiict^ve. 



Fruit medium, conical, bright i-ed, with gray dots. Flesh wliitish, 

 juicy, pleasant siabacid. December to May. 



Hess. 



Origin, Lancaster Co., Pa. 



Fruit medium, form variable, sometimes roundish, often conical, 

 red, in stripes of diftei-ent hues. Flesh gi'eenish white, tender. Good. 

 December, February. 



Hetterich. 



Origin, Pennsylvania. Tree an irregular grower. 

 Fruit medium to large, roundish oblate, yellow. Flesh whitish, 

 tender, acid. Good. November, January. 



Hewe's Virginia Crab. 



Hughe's Virginia Crab. 



The Virginia Crab makes a very high -flavored dry cider, which, b^ 

 connoisseurs, is thought unsurpassed in flavor by any other, and retains 

 its soundness a long time. It is a prodigious bearer, and the tree is 

 very hardy, though of small size. 



