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fine red on the side next the sun, and marked with crimson dots. 

 Flesh, firm, crisp, juicy, and richly flavoured. 



An excellent and useful apple, either for culinary purposes or dessert 

 use ; it is in season from December to February. 



The tree is a free grower, and an excellent bearer ; it attains above 

 the middle size, and may be grown either as an open dwarf, or an 

 espalier, when grafted on the paradise stock. 



HARVEY'S REINETTE. Fruit, very large, four inches wide, and 

 three inches and a quarter high ; roundish ovate, with obtuse angles 

 towards the apex, which are sometimes developed into prominent ridges 

 round the eye. Skin, considerably covered with a thick crust of brown 

 russet, but not entirely obscuring the crimson cheek, which is striped 

 with broad broken streaks of crimson, and a little of the dull yellow 

 ground. Eye, closed, with convergent segments, set in a pretty deep 

 basin. Stamens, basal ; tube, conical. Stalk, stout and Avoody, set in 

 a wide, deep cavity. Flesh, greenish white, firm, crisp, and juicy, with 

 a sweet, brisk, and rather rich flavour. Cells, open, obovate ; abaxile. 



A large, handsome, and very excellent apple, either for culinary 

 purposes or the dessert. 



This was sent me from Cornwall by John Vivian, Esq., of Hayle, a gentleman to 

 whom I am indebted for various other excellent apples of that part of the country. 



HARVEY'S WILTSHIRE DEFIANCE. Fruit, of the largest 

 size, three inches and a half wide, and three and a quarter high ; coni- 

 cal, and very handsomely shaped, distinctly five-sided, having five 

 prominent and acute angles descending from the apex, till they are lost 

 in the base. Skin, fine deep sulphur yellow ; of a deeper shade on the 

 side which is exposed to the sun, and covered all over with minute 

 russety dots, with here and there ramifying patches of russet. Eye, 

 pretty large and open, with short ragged segments, and set in a rather 

 shallow and angular basin. Stamens, median ; tube, conical. Stalk, 

 very short, about half an inch long, and not extending beyond the base, 

 inserted in a round and deep cavity, lined with rough scaly russet, which 

 branches out over a portion of the base. Flesh, yellowish, firm, crisp, 

 and juicy, sweet, vinous, and richly flavoured. Core, very small for 

 the size of the apple. Cells, elliptical ; abaxile. 



A very handsome and most desirable apple, being of first-rate quality, 

 either as a dessert or culinary fruit ; it is in use from the end of 

 October to the beginning of January. 



This seems to be comparatively little known, but it is well deserving 

 the notice either of the fruit gardener or the orchardist ; to the latter 

 particularly, as its size, fine appearance, and handsome shape make it 

 attractive at market, and its solid and weighty flesh gives it an advantage 

 over many apples of its size. 



HAUTE BONTE. Fruit, medium sized; roundish, somewhat 

 ribbed on the sides, and flattened at both ends ; broadest at the base, 



