WINTER APPLES. CLASS II. 93 



Nonpareil, but of nearly of the same shape ; the color green. 

 A valuable apple for the table ; crisp, juicy, and high-fla- 

 vored. February or March. It is a good bearer 



161. HUBBARD'S PEARMAIN. Lindley. Pom. Mag. 

 GOLDEN VINING of Pom. Mag. 



According to Lindley, the merits of this fruit are unri- 

 valled, and its superior as a dessert fruit, from November 

 to April, does not exist in that country. The fruit is 

 small, ovate or globular, yellow, orange or pale red next 

 the sun ; flesh firm, rather dry, juice sweet, rich, of a most 

 highly-perfumed, aromatic flavor. An abundant bearer. 



162. (P.) JERUSALEM. Bon Jard. p. 344. 



POMME PIGEON. Ib. 



The tree is of medium vigor, and very productive. The 

 fruit is small, conical ; its color that of the changeable 

 rose; flesh fine, delicate, granulous, and very good. 



163. (R.) MARGIL. Lindley. Hooker's Pom. Land. 

 A very excellent dessert fruit ; small, ovate, angular ; 



bright orange, streaked and mottled with rich red and 

 brown; slightly russeted ; flesh yellow, firm, breaking, 

 juicy, sweet, highly aromatic. November to March. A 

 very excellent bearer. 



164. (R.) MARTIN NONPAREIL. Hooker. Lindley. 

 A new and valuable dessert fruit, small, ovate, depressed; 



dull green, but tawny orange or red next the sun ; thinly 

 russeted ; not handsome ; flesh compact, with an excellent 

 flavor, sweet, with a fine acid. They have been kept a 

 year. The tree is a good bearer. 



165. (C.) MELA DE ROSMARINO. Dr. Willich. 



WHITE ITALIAN ROSEMARY APPLE. Ib. 

 A very beautiful species of Calville, having no ribs, but 

 a most glossy skin, which resembles the finest virgin wax ; 

 and, on the south, somewhat red ; of an oblong figure, and 

 the size of a goose egg ; its flesh is white as snow, un- 

 commonly tender, and yielding a saccharine juice of a 

 slightly aromatic flavor. Its large pericarpium contains 

 twenty kernels in five cells. November till February. 



166. NORFOLK BEAUFIN. Py. Malus. Lind. 



A beautiful cooking apple ; a fruit of great merit for 

 drying, furnishing a luxury at table during winter ; rather 

 large, flattened ; nearly the whole surface covered with 

 livid red. November till June. " These apples are dried 



