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Lady's Finger. See White Panuii^c. 



LADY'S FINGER OF HEREFORD. Fruit, small, two inches 

 and a quarter wide, and two inches and a half high ; conical, larger on 

 one side of the axis than the other, angular and sometimes distinctly 

 five-sided, very round on the base and sometimes without any stalk 

 cavity. Skin, deep red, streaked with deeper red where exposed to the 

 sun, but where shaded it is yellowish, but still covered with red streaks 

 of a paler tint. Eye, open, with divergent reflexed segments, set in a 

 narrow and shallow plaited basin. Stamens, marginal ; tube, conical, 

 occasionally tending to funnel-shaped. Stalk, short and slender, 

 inserted in a shallow cavity, or merely in a slight depression, sur- 

 rounded with a patch of russet. Flesh, yellowish, soft, not very juicy, 

 and with a mawkish sweet taste. Cells, elliptical ; axile, open. 



A Herefordshire cider apple, sent to me by Dr. Bull. I have been 

 obliged to distinguish this Lady's Finger as that of Hereford, to prevent 

 confusion between it and the Lady's Fingers of Lancaster and of 

 Kent, and also the White Paradise, which has been long known by that 

 name. 



Lady's Finger of Kent. See Smart's Prince Arthur. 



LADY'S FINGER OF LANCASTER. Fruit, below medium size, 

 two inches and a quarter wide, and two inches and three-quarters high ; 

 conical, rounded at the base, distinctly five -sided, flattened at the apex, 

 where it is terminated in five prominent knobs, with a smaller one 

 between each. Skin, smooth, dull greenish yellow, strewed with minute 

 grey russety dots ; tinged on the side next the sun with a dull blush, 

 which is interspersed with spots of deep lively red. Eye, small and 

 partially closed, set in a small and regularly notched basin. Stalk, 

 slender, short, and obliquely inserted under a fleshy protuberance. 

 Flesh, yellow, tender, juicy, and pleasantly acid. 



A culinary apple, much grown about Lancaster ; it is in use from 

 November to March or April. 



This is a very different apple from the White Paradise, which is 

 sometimes called the " Lady's Finger." 



La Fameuse. See De Neige. 



LAMB ABBEY PEARMAIN. Fruit, small, two inches and a 

 quarter wide, and two inches high ; roundish or oblato-oblong, regularly 

 and handsomely shaped. Skin, smooth greenish yellow on the shaded 

 side, but becoming clear yellow when at maturity ; on the side next the 

 sun it is dull orange, streaked and striped with red, which becomes 

 more faint as it extends to the shaded side, and dotted all over with 

 minute, punctured, russety dots. Eye, rather large and open, with 

 long, broad, divergent segments, reflexed at the tips, and set in a wide, 

 deep, and plaited basin. Stamens, median ; tube, conical or funnel- 

 shaped. Stalk, from a quarter to half an inch long, slender, deeply 



