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very long and slender, deeply set in a very regularly formed cavity. 

 Flesh, soft, yellowish, sweet, and pleasant, but somewhat wanting; 

 in juiciness. A very pretty apple for dessert use in September and 

 October. 



This was raised by Mr. William Paul, of Waltham Cross, and exhibited by hint 

 at the Royal Horticultural Society in 1868. 



BEDFORDSHIRE FOUNDLING (Cambridge Pippin). Fruit, 

 large, three inches and a quarter wide, and three inches and a half 

 high ; roundish ovate, inclining to oblong, with irregular and pro- 

 minent angles on the side, which extend to the apex, and form ridges 

 round the eye. Skin, dark green at first, and changing as it attains 

 maturity to pale greenish yellow on the shaded side ; but tinged with 

 orange on the side next the sun, and strewed with a few fawn-coloured 

 dots. Eye, open, set in a deep, narrow, and angular basin. Stamens, 

 basal ; tube, conical. Stalk, short, inserted in a deep cavity. Flesh,, 

 yellowish, tender, pleasantly sub-acid, and with a somewhat sugary 

 flavour. Cells, obovate ; abaxile. 



An excellent culinary apple of first-rate quality ; in use from Novem- 

 ber to March. 



BEDFORDSHIRE TWIN. This is a true twin fruit, being two- 

 apples on one stalk, and so closely united at the base and on one side* 

 as to form one apple with two perfectly distinct eyes. The section is 

 three inches and a quarter long, by two inches and an eighth deep- 

 Skin, yellow, strewed with russet dots, and streaked with red. Eye,, 

 with erect half open segments set in a deep depression. Stamens, mar- 

 ginal ; tube, short, conical. Stalk, very short, and quite imbedded in 

 the cavity. Flesh, firm, pleasantly sub-acid, and with a good though 

 not a rich flavour. Cells, axile, closed. 



A very firm, solid, long-keeping apple, continuing in use till 

 April. 



This curious apple was sent me in 1877 by Mr. G. B. Clarke, a chemist and 

 druggist, of Woburn, Bedfordshire. It is totally distinct from the Cluster Golden 

 Pippin, which frequently produces the fruit in pairs, for almost invariably the Bed- 

 fordshire Twin is in this condition. Mr. Clarke informed me that he found this in* 

 the garden of Mr. Bowler, a butcher at Husborne Crawley, near Woburn, who- 

 about twenty years previously obtained the grafts from the orchard of a Mr. George, 

 who lived at Bythorne, near Huntingdon. 



The twin fruits vary considerably in the degree of the twin development. In? 

 some there is the mere suspicion of a swelling surmounted with a small " eye" ; 

 others have a small twin the size of a hazel nut attached to one four times its size,, 

 while the perfect apple is in pairs of equal size. 



BELLE BONNE (Winter Belle Bonne; Belli/band ; Holland).- 

 Fruit, above medium size, from two and a half to three inches wide,, 

 and two and three-quarters to three and a quarter high ; conical, 

 even and regular in its outline ; narrow at the crown. Skin, thick, 

 smooth, with only a few traces and thin patches of russet network 

 here and there, pale greenish yellow, and marked with a few reddish 

 streaks on the side next the sun, and sometimes it has a brownish. 



