4 THE FKUIT MANUAL. 



BITTER ALMONDS. Besides the common, there are several 

 varieties of Bitter Almond, such as the Large Fruited, the Tender- 

 Shelled, and the Amandier d'ltalie, but as they cannot be regarded as 

 esculent fruit, and as they are not likely ever to be cultivated in British 

 fruit gardens, even as objects of curiosity, it is foreign to the design of 

 this work to introduce them here. 



APPLES, 



ACKLAM RUSSET (Ademy Russet). Fmit, below the medium 

 size, two inches and a quarter wide, and two inches high ; round and 

 somewhat flattened, and bluntly angular. Skin, pale yellow tinged 

 with green, and covered with thin grey russet, particularly on the side 

 exposed to the sun, and sometimes it is quite covered with russet, so 

 much so that only small spots of the ground is visible. Eye, small 

 and closed, with flat convergent segments, set in a smooth, round, and 

 shallow basin. Stamens, marginal ; tube, short, conical. Stalk, short, 

 inserted in a moderately deep cavity. Flesh, white with a greenish 

 tinge, firm, crisp, juicy, and highly flavoured. Cells, ovate ; axile, slit. 



A dessert apple of first-rate quality ; ripe in November, and will 

 keep under favourable circumstances till March. The tree is very 

 hardy, and an excellent bearer. It succeeds best in a dry soil, and is 

 well adapted for espalier training. 



This variety originated at the village of Acklam, in Yorkshire. 



Ackland Vale. See Orange Gof. 



Aclemy Russet. See Acklam Russet. 



AJ)AMS'S PEARMAIN (Hanging Pearmain; Norfolk Pippin). 

 Fruit, large, varying from two inches and a half to three inches high, 

 and about the same in breadth at the widest part ; pearmain-shaped, 

 very even, and regularly formed. Skin, pale yellow, tinged with green, 

 and co\ered with delicate russet on the shaded side ; but deep yellow 

 tinged with red, and delicately streaked with livelier red, on the side 

 next the sun. Eye, small and open, with acute erect divergent seg- 

 ments, set in a narrow, round, and plaited basin. Stamens, median ; 

 tube, funnel-shaped, sometimes conical. Stalk, varying from half 

 an inch to an inch long, obliquely inserted in a shallow cavity, 

 and generally with a fleshy protuberance on one side of it. Flesh, 

 yellowish, crisp, juicy, rich, and sugary, with an agreeable and plea- 

 santly perfumed flavour. Cells, obovate ; abaxile. 



A dessert apple of first-rate quality ; in use from December to 

 February. It is a very handsome variety, and worthy of general 



