APPLES. 135 



Flesh, yellowish, very tender and juicy, sweet, and with a fine pine 

 flavour. Cells, obovate ; axile, closed. 



A first-rate dessert apple ; in use from Christmas till May. 



Raised in the garden of the Marquis of Exeter, at Burghley, near Stamford, and 

 was first distributed in 1865 by Mr, House, the nurseryman at Peterborough. 



LORD CLYDE. Fruit, below medium size, two inches and five- 

 cighths wide, and two inches and a quarter high ; not unlike a small 

 specimen of Golden Noble. It is regular and even in its outline. 

 Skin, of an uniform lemon colour, without any trace of red, and with 

 very little thin grey russet in the cavity of the stalk. Eye, closed, 

 with flat convergent segments, set in a narrow and rather shallow basin. 

 Stamens, marginal ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, half an inch long, 

 inserted in a wide and rather deep cavity. Flesh, yellowish white, 

 tender, juicy, sweet, and pleasantly flavoured. Cells, open, roundish. 



An excellent cooking apple, which keeps well till March. It was 

 raised by Mr. B. W. Witham, nurseryman, Reddish, near Stockport. 



LORD DERBY (London Major}. Fruit, large, three inches and a 

 quarter high, and three inches wide ; roundish, narrowing from the 

 middle to the eye ; it has prominent ribs, which extend in ridges round 

 the crown. Skin, smooth and shining, quite dark grass-green, strewed 

 with a few russet dots, and some lines of russet. Eye, closed, with 

 connivent leafy segments, set in a deep angular or puckered basin. 

 Stamens, median ; tube, funnel-shaped or conical. Stalk, very short 

 and stout, imbedded in the cavity. Flesh, greenish, soft, and tender, 

 with a niild acidity. Cells, roundish ovate ; abaxile. 



An excellent culinary apple ; in use up till Christmas. It is a good 

 deal like Gloria Mundi, and sometimes grows to an enormous size. I 

 have them this year (1883) four inches in diameter, and the same in 

 height. 



LORD GROSVENOR. Fruit, large, varying from three inches and 

 a quarter wide, and three inches high, to four inches wide, and three 

 inches and three-quarters high ; ovate or conical, very prominently 

 and irregularly ribbed, with ridges and bold puckers round the eye. 

 Skin, of an uniform straw colour, covered with a few dots, and here 

 and there traces of thin pale brown russet. Eye, closed, with con- 

 nivent segments, and set in a deep, irregular, and ribbed basin. 

 Stamens, marginal ; tube, deep, conical. Stalk, half an inch long, 

 slender, inserted in a deep cavity. Flesh, white, tender, juicy, and 

 agreeably sub-acid. Cells, ovate ; abaxile. 



A large and handsome culinary apple ; in use from September till 

 November. It is one of those early yellow apples, of which there are 

 now so many in the style of Stirling Castle, Lord Suflield, Hawthorn- 

 den, Keswick Codlin, &c., &c. 



Lord Gwydyr's Xewtowii Pippin. See Alfriston. 



LORD LENNOX. Fruit, small, two inches and a quarter wide, 



