APPLES. 123 



surrounded with a largo patch of russet. Flesh, yellowish, crisp, 

 tender, juicy, and sweet, but of dry texture, and lacking acidity. 



A dessert apple of no great merit ; in use from October to 

 Christmas. 



King. See Borsdorfcr. 



King Apple. See Warner's Kiwj. 



KING CHARLES' PEARMAIN. Fruit, medium size, two inches 

 and a half wide, and two inches high ; bluntly conical, even and regular 

 in its outline. Skin, entirely covered with thin pale brown russet, which 

 does not entirely obscure the deep yellow ground colour ; on the side 

 next the sun it has a tinge of rather bright red. Eye, open, with flat 

 convergent segments, set in a pretty deep undulating basin. Stamens, 

 marginal ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, very short, deeply imbedded in 

 the cavity. Flesh, firm, crisp, juicy, sweet, and with a rich flavour. 

 Cells, obovate ; axile, open. 



A dessert apple of good quality ; in use from November till March. 



This was sent me by Messrs. Richard Smith & Co., Nurserymen, Worcester, in 

 March, 1876. 



King George. See Borsdurfer. 



KING HARRY. Fruit, small, two inches and a half wide, and 

 two inches high ; roundish ovate, even and regular in its outline. 

 Skin, lemon-yellow all over, and rather thickly strewed with large 

 russet dots. Eye, small and open, with divergent segments, set in a 

 shallow, saucer-like basin. Stamens, marginal; tube, funnel-shaped. 

 Stalk, three-quarters of an inch long, slender, inserted in a deep round 

 cavity, which is lined with russet. Flesh, yellow, tender, juicy, sweet, 

 and of fine flavour. Cells, obovate ; axile. 



A dessert apple of high quality ; in use from October till the end of 

 November. 



KING OF THE PIPPINS. Fruit, medium sized, two inches and 

 a quarter wide, and the same high ; ovate or conical, regularly and 

 handsomely shaped. Skin, greenish yellow, with a blush of red next 

 the sun, and marked with a little rough brown russet. Eye, large and 

 partially open, with long and broad segments, which are connivent, but 

 reflexed at the tips, set in a shallow and undulating basin. Stamens, 

 median ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, a quarter of an inch long, just 

 extending beyond the base. Flesh, white, with a yellowish tinge, firm, 

 crisp, very juicy and sugary, with a rich vinous flavour. Cells, 

 obovate ; axile. 



This is one of the richest flavoured early dessert apples, and un- 

 equalled by any other variety of the same season ; it is ripe in the end 

 of August and beginning of September. 



This is the original and true King of the Pippins, and a very different apple 

 from that generally known by the same name. See Golden Winter Pearmain. I 

 suspect this is the King Apple of Bea. 



