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in the cavity. Flesh, tender, crisp, juicy, and when highly ripened of 

 a rich and sweet flavour. Cells, roundish obovate ; axile. 



A dessert apple of excellent quality \vhc-n grown in a warm soil and 

 favourable situation. 



This was raised l>y Herr von Hnrhviss, director of the royal garden at Nikita, 

 and was named in honour of the celebrated pomologist, Herr von Burchardt, of 

 Landsberg, on the Warta. 



BURNTISLAND SPICE (BurntMnml Pij>j>in : limirn S, 

 Rook's Nest). Fruit, two inches and a half wide, and two inches and 

 a quarter high ; roundish ovate, ribbed on the sides, and puckered at 

 the eye. Skin, green, much mottled with dingy brown russet in lines 

 and patches. Kye, small and closed, set in a puckered basin ; seg- 

 ments, short. Stamens, marginal ; tube, long, funnel-shaped. Stalk, 

 long and slender, deeply inserted in an uneven cavity. Flesh, very 

 tender and loose grained, mealy, and without flavour. Cells, ovate, 

 wide open. 



A worthless apple, ripe in October. 



Burntisland Pippin. See Burntisland Spice. 



BURN'S SEEDLING. Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three- 

 quarters wide, and two inches and a quarter high ; roundish, flattened 

 at the base, and narrowing towards the apex, sometimes inclining to 

 conical. Skin, yellow, but with a blush and a few streaks of red next 

 the sun, marked with a few patches of russet, and sprinkled with 

 russety dots, which are thickest round the eye. Eye, large and open, 

 set in a shallow and irregular basin. Stalk, short, thick, and fleshy, 

 generally obliquely inserted by the side of a fleshy swelling, and 

 surrounded with a patch of rough russet. Flesh, yellowish, tender, 

 juicy, and sub-acid. 



An excellent culinary apple, of the first quality ; in use from October 

 to Christmas. 



This variety was raised by Mr. Henry Burn, gardener to the Marquis of Ayles- 

 bury, at Savernake Forest, near Marl borough. 



Bur-Knot. See Oslin. 



BURR-KNOT (BidSs Walkinfi-stick).Frwi, large, three inches 

 wide, and two inches and a half high ; in shape not unlike Cox's Orange 

 Pippin, but sometimes with prominent angles on the sides, which extend 

 to the crown, round, and even in its outline. Skin, smooth and shining r 

 of a clear lemon yellow colour, and with a blush of red on the side next 

 the sun, and thickly strewed with a few russet dots. Eye, open, with, 

 reflexed segments set in a narrow and plaited basin. Stamens, mar- 

 ginal ; tube, deep conical. Stalk, half an inch long, inserted in a deep 

 cavity. Flesh, yellowish white, tender, juicy, and of an agreeable acid 

 flavour. Cells, roundish obovate ; axile, open. 



A good kitchen apple ; in use during October and November. 



