APPLES. Ill 



medium sized ; oblato-oblong, the same width at the apex as the base, 

 and slightly angular on the sides. Skin, pale green, becoming yellow 

 at maturity, with a faint blush of red where it is exposed to the sun. 

 Eye, large, set in a wide and deep basin. Stalk, short, thick, and 

 curved, inserted in a rather deep cavity. Flesh, firm, juicy, sugary, 

 and briskly acid. 



An excellent culinary apple ; in use from November to February. 



Hollow-eyed Pippin. See Hol.loir-croinirtl rij>j>in. 

 Hood's Seedling. See Scarlet Pearmain. 



HORMEAD PEARMAIN (Arundel r,-tin>nu'n : llnnne.nl /Y/V/'M). 

 Fruit, medium sized, two and a half to three inches wide, and two 

 inches and three-quarters high ; even in outline, and roundish. Skin, 

 greenish yellow, becoming quite yellow when fully ripe, and an orange 

 tinge where exposed to the sun ; there are here and there traces of thin 

 russet. Eye, partially open, with flat convergent segments, set in a 

 wide basin. Stamens, median ; tube, short, funnel-shaped. Stalk, 

 short and stout, with sometimes a fleshy swelling on one side, sur- 

 rounded with a patch of russet. Flesh, firm, crisp, very juicy, and 

 pleasantly acid. Cells, roundish obovate ; axile. 



An excellent cooking apple ; in use from October till March. 



Horrex's Pearmain. See Foulden Pearmain. 



HORSHAM RUSSET. Fruit, about the size of the Nonpareil, but 

 not so regular in its outline, generally about two inches and a quarter 

 in diameter, and two inches deep. Eye, small and closed, in a small 

 depression without angles. Stalk, short, rather thick, rather deeply 

 inserted in a wide, uneven cavity. Skin, pale green, covered with a 

 thin yellowish grey russet round its upper part, with a pale salmon- 

 coloured tinge on the sunny side. Flesh, greenish white, firm, crisp. 

 Juice, plentiful, of a high aromatic Nonpareil flavour. 



A dessert apple ; in season from November till March. 



Raised from the seed of a Nonpareil about 182', by Mrs. Goose, of Horsham 

 St. Faith's, near Norwich. It is a very hardy tree, and a good bearer. 



Horsley Pippin. See Hollandbury . 



HOSKREIGER. Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and 

 two inches and three-quarters high ; roundish and considerably 

 flattened, almost oblate. Skin, of a fine grass-green, which changes as 

 it ripens to yellowish green, and marked with broad streaks of pale red 

 on the side next the sun, which is strewed with rather large russety 

 freckles. Eye, small and open, with erect, acute segments, and placed 

 in a rather deep, narrow, and undulating basin. Stalk, short, inserted 

 in a round, funnel-shaped cavity, which is lined with pale brown 



