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to be more generally known, to be cultivated throughout the length and breadth of 

 that country. Even in the south it is worthy of cultivation as being both in size 

 and quality one of the most attractive market apples. I have known them sold at 

 two shillings a dozen. 



MERE DE MENAGE (Combermere Apple; Flanders Pippin}. 

 Fruit, very large ; roundish ovate or conical, prominently ribbed, and 

 with ridges round the eye. Skin, red, streaked with darker red all over, 

 except a little on the shaded side, where it is yellow. Eye, closed, with 

 flat convergent segments, or open, with short, narrow segments, which 

 are reflexed or spreading at the tips, set in an angular basin. Stamens, 

 basal ; tube, deep, conical. Stalk, very short and stout, inserted in a 

 deep cavity, so much so as to be scarcely visible. Flesh, firm, crisp, 

 brisk, and juicy. Cells, roundish obovate ; abaxile. 



A valuable and very beautiful culinary apple of first-rate quality ; in 

 use from October to January. 



Mere de Menage sometimes attains an enormous size. It is not 

 unusual to meet with specimens four inches and a half wide and three 

 inches and a half high. 



MICKLEHAM PEARMAIN. Fruit, below medium size, two inches 

 wide, and about the same high ; roundish, inclining to ovate. Skin, 

 yellow on the shaded side, with orange red next the sun, marked with 

 traces of russet, and specked with large russet dots on its surface. Eye, 

 large and open, set in a wide, shallow basin. Stalk, half an inch long, 

 inserted in a deep narrow cavity. Flesh, yellow, firm, crisp, juicy, 

 sugary, and of good flavour. 



A good dessert apple, which keeps well till the end of February. 



This was raised at Mickleham, near Dorking, in Surrey. 



MILLER'S GLORY. Fruit, about medium size, nearly three inches 

 wide, and two inches and a quarter high ; roundish and depressed, nar- 

 rowing towards the crown, obtusely angular, and sometimes oblate. Skin, 

 smooth, very much covered with dull livid red, of the same colour as 

 Norfolk Beefing, except where shaded, and then it is yellowish green, 

 covered with broken streaks of deep red. Eye, closed, with broad, flat, 

 convergent segments, set in a shallow basin. Stamens, median ; tube, 

 conical. Stalk, half an inch long, inserted in a pretty deep cavity, but 

 sometimes short with a swelling on one side of it. Flesh, greenish, very 

 firm, solid, crisp, and very juicy, with a pleasant though brisk acidity. 

 Cells, obovate ; axile. 



A solid and very heavy kitchen apple of the first quality, which keeps 

 till February without shrivelling. 



Milton Golden Pippin. See Golden Pippin. 



MINCHULL CRAB (Minshul Crab ; Mincham's Crab ; Lancashire 

 Crab ; Lancaster Crab]. Fruit, above medium size, three inches wide, 

 and two inches and a half high ; roundish, and considerably flattened, 

 almost oblate. Skin, green at first, changing to yellow, covered with 



