APPLES. 5 



cultivation. The tree is a free and healthy grower, producing long 

 slender shoots, by which, and its spoon-shaped ovate leaves, it is easily 

 distinguished. It is an excellent bearer, even in a young state, 

 particularly on the paradise or doucin stock, and succeeds well as 

 an espalier. 



I have endeavoured unsuccessfully to discover the origin of this valuable apple. 

 The name of Adams is that of a gentleman who, about the year 1826, gave 

 scions of it to the Horticultural Society of London under the name of Norfolk 

 Pippin, because he had received them from Norfolk. No evidence can be found 

 of its having at any time been considered a Norfolk apple ; and it was not till I 

 attended the first Pomological Meeting of the Woolhope Club at Hereford that I 

 obtained a clue as to its history. I there found it exhibited in almost every 

 collection as the Hanging Pearmain, and so widely is it grown in the county, 

 there cannot be any doubt that it is originally a Herefordshire apple. It is also 

 called Lady's Finger in the county, but as there is also a cider Lady's Finger, the 

 synonyme should be suppressed. 



^Esopus Spitzenberg. See Esopus Spitzenlerg. 

 Alexander. See Emperor Alexander. 



ALEXANDRA (BunyanVs Seedling). Fruit, small, roundish, of 

 the shape of Golden Harvey, even and regular in its outline. Skin, 

 yellowish, and covered with a thin coat of pale russet, with a blush 

 of orange on one side. Eye, small and half open, set in a wide basin. 

 Stalk, nearly an inch long, slender. Flesh, tender, very juicy, and very 

 richly flavoured, with a fine aroma. 



This is a delicious little early apple ; ripe in the first week of 

 September. 



It was raised by Messrs. Bunyard & Son, nurserymen, Maidstone, and first 

 fruited in 1868. 



ALFRISTON (Lord Girydyr's Neictown Pippin ; Oldaker's New ; 

 Shepherd's Pipjiui; Shepherd's Seedling). Fruit of the largest size, 

 generally about three inches and a half wide, and from two and three- 

 quarters to three inches high ; roundish and angular on the sides. 

 Skin, greenish yellow on the shaded side, and tinged with orange next 

 the sun, covered all over with veins, or reticulations of russet. Eye, 

 open, with erect convergent segments, set in a deep and uneven basin. 

 Stamens, marginal ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, short, inserted in a 

 deep cavity. Flesh, yellowish white, crisp, juicy, sugary, and briskly 

 flavoured. Cells, elliptical ; abaxile. 



This is one of the largest and best culinary apples. It comes into 

 use in the beginning of November and continues till April. 



The tree is a strong and vigorous grower, very hardy, and an abun 

 dant bearer, but on strong soils that are not well drained it is apt to 

 canker. 



This variety was raised by a person of the name of Shepherd, at Uckfield, in 

 Sussex, and has for many years been extensively cultivated in that county, nnder 

 the names of Shepherd's Seedling and Shepherd's Pippin. Some years ago a Mr., 

 Brooker, of Alfriston, near Hailsham, sent specimens of the fruit to the London 

 Horticultural Society, and being unknown, it was called the Alfriston, a name by 

 which it is now generally known. By some it is erroneously called the Baltimore 

 and Newtown Pippin. 



