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shaped. Stalk, very short, generally with a swelling of the flesh on 

 one side of it. Flesh, firm, juicy, sweet, and pleasantly flavoured. 

 Cells, roundish elliptical ; axile, open. 



It is a good market apple in use at Christmas. 



I received it from Mr. Killick, of Langley, near Maidstone, and I believe it 

 takes its name from the village of Borden, near Sittingbourne. 



Borsdorf. See Borsdorfer. 

 Borsdorf Hative. See Borsdorfer. 



BORSDORFER (Borsdorf Hative; Queen's Apple; Eed Bors- 

 dorfer ; Borsdorf ; Postophe d'Hiver ; Pomme de prochain ; Reinette 

 d'Allemagne; Blanche de Leipsic ; Reinette de Misnie ; Grand Bohe- 

 mian Borsdorfer; Garret Pippin; King; King George; King George 

 the Third). Fruit, below medium size ; roundish oblate, rather nar- 

 rower at the apex than the base, handsomely and regularly formed, 

 without ribs or other inequalities. Skin, shining, pale waxen yellow 

 in the shade, and bright deep red next the sun ; it is strewed with dots, 

 which are yellowish on the sunny side, and brownish in the shade, ami 

 marked with veins and slight traces of delicate, yellowish-grey russet. 

 Eye, large and open, with long reflexed segments, placed in a rather 

 deep, round, and pretty even basin. Stamens, median ; tube, funnel- 

 shaped. Stalk, short and slender, inserted in a narrow, even, and 

 shallow cavity, which is lined with thin russet. Flesh, white with a 

 yellowish tinge, crisp and delicate, brisk, juicy, and sugary, and with 

 a rich, vinous, and aromatic flavour. Cells, obovate ; axile, closed or slit. 



A dessert apple of the first quality ; in use from November to 

 January. 



The tree is a free grower, and very hardy, not subject to canker, and 

 attains the largest size. It is very prolific when it has acquired its full 

 growth, which, in good soil, it will do in fifteen or twenty years ; and 

 even in a young state it is a good bearer. If grafted on the paradise 

 stock it may be grown as an open dwarf or an espalier. The bloom is 

 very hardy, and withstands the night frosts of spring better than most 

 other varieties. 



This, above all other apples, is the most highly esteemed in Germany. Diel 

 calls it the Pride of the Germans. It is believed to have originated either at a 

 village of Misnia, called Borsdorf, or at a place of the same name near Leipsic. 

 According to Forsyth it was such a favourite with Queen Charlotte that she had a 

 considerable quantity of them annually imported from Germany for her own 

 private use. It is one of the earliest recorded varieties of the continental authors, 

 but does not seem to have been known in this country before the close of the last 

 century. It was first grown in the Brompton Park Nursery in 1785. It is men- 

 tioned by Cordus, in 1561, as being cultivated in Misnia, which circumstance has 

 no doubt given rise to the synonyme " Reinette de Misnie " ; he also informs us it 

 is highly esteemed for its sweet and generous flavour, and the pleasant perfume 

 which it exhales. Wittichius, in his ' Methodus Simplicium," attributes to it the 

 power of dispelling epidemic fevers and madness ! 



There is a proverb in Germany which says, " Ihre wangen sind so roth wie ein 

 Borsdorfer apfel " (Her cheeks are as red as a Borsdorfer apple). 



