114 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



A kitchen apple ; in use from Christmas to March. It has a good 

 deal of resemblance to Winter Majetin and Winter Greening, being the 

 same colour, and having the five ridges round the crown. 



HUNTHOUSE (Large Hunthouse).Frmt, of medium size, two 

 inches and three-quarters wide, by two inches and a half high ; conical, 

 ribbed on the sides, and terminated at the apex with rather prominent 

 knobs. Skin, at first grass-green, but changing as it ripens to greenish 

 yellow ; where exposed to the sun it is tinged with red, and marked 

 with small crimson dots and a few short broken streaks of the same 

 colour ; but where shaded it is veined with thin brown russet, particu- 

 larly about the eye, and very thinly strewed with russety dots. Eye, 

 large, half open, with broad segments, set in a narrow and deeply fur- 

 rowed basin. Stamens, median ; tube, conical. Stalk, an inch long, 

 straight, inserted in a very shallow cavity, sometimes between two 

 fleshy lips, but generally with a fleshy protuberance on one side of it. 

 Flesh, greenish white, firm, tender, and with a brisk but rather coarse 

 and rough acid flavour. Cells, roundish elliptical ; axile, open. 



A useful culinary apple ; in use from December to March. 



Its chief recommendation is the immense productiveness of the tree, 

 which is rather small, with pendulous shoots, and extremely hardy ; 

 it succeeds in exposed situations where many other varieties could not 

 grow. 



Discovered at Whitby, in Yorkshire, where it is extensively cultivated, 



HUNTINGDON CODLIN. Fruit, odorous, large, three inches 

 wide, and two inches and three-quarters high ; round, prominently 

 ribbed on the sides, and terminating in ridges round the eye. Skin, 

 greasy to handle, deep yellow. Eye, closed, with connivent segments, 

 set in a ribbed and coarsely puckered basin. Stamens, marginal ; tube, 

 conical. Stalk, half an inch to three-quarters long, slender, set in a 

 narrow shallow cavity, sometimes oblique, by the side of a swelling. 

 Flesh, tender, mildly acid, with a pleasant perfume. Cells, obovate ; 

 abaxile. 



An early cooking apple ; ripe in August and September. The tree is 

 a great bearer, and is well suited for orcharding for market. 



It was sent out by Messrs. Wood & Ingram, of Huntingdon. 



Hunt's Nonpareil. See Nonpareil. 

 Hutching's Seedling. See Sugar-loaf Pippin. 



BUTTON SQUARE. Fruit, large ; roundish ovate, and irregular 

 in its outline, being much bossed on the sides, and knobbed about the 

 eye and the stalk. Skin, smooth, dull greenish yellow where shaded, 

 and strewed with minute russety dots, but washed with dull red next the 

 sun, and dotted with black dots. Eye, small and closed, placed in an 

 angular and plaited basin. Stamens, marginal ; tube, long, funnel- 



