94< THE OECIIAED AND FEUIT GAEDEN. 



The tree is a good bearer, and its fruit is a valuable eat- 

 ing apple from October to about Christmas. It is also 

 called Russian Emperor, Alexander, and Aporta. 



The Beauty of Kent is another splendid apple, large, 

 and irregularly ribbed on the sides. The colour is clear 

 yellowish-green, mottled with red, bright red and yellow 

 on the sunny side, and with russet markings round the 

 base. The flesh is yellowish- white, crisp and tender, and 

 the juice plentiful and piquant. The eye is small, closed 

 by a short calyx, and set in a narrow, angular basin; and 

 the stalk is short and slender, and deeply set in a funnel- 

 shaped cavity. It is a handsome and good apple, and 

 comes in well from Michaelmas to Christmas. 



The Nonesuch is a very pretty and delicious little 

 apple, very round and regular in shape, without bosses 

 or angles, pale yellow, spotted and marbled with orange, 

 with streaks and patches of red on the sunny side. 

 The flesh is white, tender, juicy, and sweet, with a 

 slightly perfumed flavour. It is rather below the middle 

 size, and is a handsome-looking dessert apple from 

 Michaelmas to about Christmas. Other names are None- 

 such, and Langton Nonesuch. It is a good cooking- 

 apple, and is one of the best kinds for making jelly. 

 There is also a "Winter Nonesuch, which is a good cook- 

 ing apple ; it comes in in November and keeps until 

 March. 



The Scarlet Crofton is an Irish dessert apple, similar 

 in size and shape to the early Crofton or Irish Peach 

 apple. The eye is wide but shallow, and the stalk short 

 and sometimes bent. It is yellowish-russet, and red 

 and russet on the sunny side, and the flesh is firm, 

 crisp, juicy, sweet, and high-flavoured, and never 

 becomes mealy. It ripens in October and lasts until 

 Christmas. 



The Golden Pippin, celebrated alike for beauty and 

 delicacy, both of flavour and constitution, is a kind which 

 every cultivator should possess if he can ; but it is a tree 

 which it is often difficult to procure, and which requires 

 careful culture, a good soil, and a good situation. It is, 

 however, worth all the care it can have. 



