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inserted. Flesh, yellow, crisp, very juicy, brisk, sweet, and perfumed. 

 Cells, round ; axile. 



A very good and useful apple, either for culinary or dessert use ; 

 in season from October to February. 



DEVONSHIRE nrARRFA'DKX (Qii.irnw f t'>n ; 7.W Qu<u'rin<i<l,-r. ; 

 k Apple). Fruit, rather below medium size ; oblate, and sometimes 

 a little angular iu its outline. Skin, smooth and shining, entirely 

 covered with deep purplish rod, i-xtvpt where it is shaded by a leaf or 

 twit;, and then it is of a delicate pale green, presenting a clear and 

 well-defined outline of the object which shades it. Eye, quite closed, 

 with very long tomentose segments, and placed in an undulating and 

 shallow basin, which is sometimes knobbed, and generally lined with 

 thick wool. Stamens, marginal ; tube, long, funnel-shaped. Stalk, 

 about three-quarters of an inch long, fleshy at the insertion, deeply 

 set in a round and funnel-shaped cavity. Flesh, white, frequently 

 stained with red, crisp, brisk, and very juicy, with a rich vinous and 

 refreshing flavour. Cells, ovate ; axile, slit. 



A very valuable and first-rate dessert apple. It ripens on the tree 

 the first week in August, and lasts till the end of September. It is 

 one of the earliest summer dessert apples, and at that season is parti- 

 cularly ivlished for its fine, cooling, and refreshing vinous juice. 



The tree attains a considerable size ; it is particularly hardy, and a 

 most prolific bearer. It succeeds well in almost every soil and situa- 

 tion, and is admirably adapted for orchard planting. In almost every 

 latitude of Great Britain, from Devonshire to the Moray Frith, I have 

 observed it in perfect health and luxuriance, producing an abundance 

 of well-ripened fruit, which, though not so large, nor so early in the 

 northern parts, still possessing the same richness of flavour as in the 

 south. 



This is supposed to be a very old variety. The earliest record I can find of 

 Devon.-liirc Quarrenden is in " The Compleat Planter and Cyderist," published in 

 1690. In 1693 it is mentioned by Ray ; and except by Mortimer, it is not noticed 

 by any subset pient writer till within a very recent period. It seems to have been 

 unknown to bwitzer, Langley, and Miller ; nor do Ih'nd that it was grown in any 

 of the London nurseries before the beginning of the present century. The only- 

 early catalogue in which I find it is that of Miller & Sweet, of Bristol, in 1790. 



DEVONSHIRE QUEEN. Fruit, medium sized ; roundish ovate, 

 with prominent angles on the sides, which extend to the eye, where 

 they form prominent ridges. Skin, entirely covered with deep, rich 

 crimson, which is marked and streaked with a deeper shade of the 

 same colour ; but where shaded there is a slight patch of yellow. The 

 whole surface is shining as if varnished. Eye, closed and deeply sunk. 

 Stamens, marginal ; tube, long, funnel-shaped. Stalk, half an inch 

 long, slender, deeply inserted. Flesh, yellowish, white in the centre ; 

 but under the skin it is deeply tinged with red, and this extends some- 

 times to the core ; soft and tender, with a strong aromatic and 

 pleasantly acid flavour. Cells, roundish ovate ; abaxile. 



