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

 inserted all its length in the cavity, which is lined with russet. Flesh, 

 with a yellowish tinge, tender, not very juicy, but rather dry, and with 

 a sweet, slightly acid flavour. Cells, round or roundish obovate ; 

 axile, open. 



An old cider apple mentioned by Evelyn and Worlidge. The latter says, 

 " The Gennet-Moyle is a pleasant and necessary fruit in the kitchen, and one of 

 the best cider apples. The fruit is well marked, and the trees great bearers." It 

 was used as a stock for grafting other apple trees upon from its being propagated 

 easily from cuttings. The name is derived from two obsolete words, Gennet sig- 

 nifying a mule, and Moyle a scion or graft, the name therefore meaning a mule or 

 hybrid produced by grafting. 



Mortimer says, "The Gennet-Moyle is commonly propagated by cutting off the 

 branch a little below a bur-knot, and setting of it without any more ceremony." 

 Nourse, in " Campania Felix," says, ** It makes an incomparable pleasant liquor, 

 but a little weakish, and fit only to be drunk by ladies in the summer, and will 

 not keep so lone: as the more masculine cyders, to which it bears the same resem- 

 blance as the Verdea does to the stronger wines of Florence." Philips sings its 

 praises as 



" the Moilo 

 Of sweetest hony'd taste." 



GILLIFLOWER. Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter wide at 

 the base, and three inches high ; conical or Codlin-shaped, very uneven 

 in its outline, having prominent ribs, which terminate at the apex in 

 corresponding ridges. Skin, smooth and unctuous, shining, pale 

 yellowish green on the shaded side, and a red cheek on the side next 

 the sun. Eye, large, open, set in a deep angular and uneven basin ; 

 segments, erect, divergent. Stamens, median ; tube, deep conical. 

 Stalk, half an inch long, deeply inserted. Flesh, white, tender, juicy, 

 sweet, and pleasantly flavoured. Cells, roundish obovate ; abaxile. 



An excellent culinary apple ; in use in October. 



GIPSY KING. Fruit, small, two inches and a half wide, and an 

 inch and three-quarters high ; oblate, even and symmetrical. Skin, 

 dull brownish red on the side next the sun, greenish yellow, with a 

 few pale red streaks, on the shaded side, the surface covered with 

 patches and freckles of ashy grey russet. Eye, like that of the 

 Blenheim Pippin, open, with divergent segments, set in a round, 

 pretty deep, saucer-like basin. Stamens, median ; tube, funnel-shaped. 

 Stalk, half an inch long, straight, inserted in a round, wide, and rather 

 shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish, tender, juicy, and sweet, with a 

 pleasant acidity and aroma. Cells, obovate ; axile, slit. 



A handsome dessert apple ; in use from October to December. It 

 soon shrivels. 



Girkin Pippin. See Wyken Pippin. 



Glammis Castle. See Tower of Glaminis. 



GLORIA MUNDI (Baltimore; Belle Dubois ; Glazenwood Gloria 



