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rough ; wherever it is exposed to the snn it is covered with dark 

 shining crimson, but on the shaded side it is deep yellow, washed 

 with thin pule red, and marked with broken stripes of crimson. Eye, 

 half open, with erect segments, which are reflexed at the tips, and 

 which are frequently broken, leaving the eye open with stunted seg- 

 ments, and placed in a rather shallow, somewhat angular basin. 

 Stamens, marginal ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, about a quarter of an 

 inch long, sometimes woody, sometimes a fleshy knob, inserted in a 

 vi-ry shallow and narrow cavity. Flesh, greenish white, very firm and 

 crisp, pretty juicy, with a brisk and agreeably perfumed flavour. Cells, 

 ovate ; axile. 



A good culinary apple, which bakes well, and has a pleasant acidity ; 

 in use from December to March. The tree is an excellent bearer. 



This, one of the best keeping apples of the Gloucestershire orchards, was sent 

 me, with many others of that district, by G. S. Wintle, Esq., of Gloucester. 



MORRIS'S COURT OF WICK. Fruit, small, two inches and a 

 quarter broad, and an inch and three-quarters high ; roundish oblate, 

 regularly and handsomely shaped, very closely resembling its parent, 

 tin- old Court of Wick. Skin, pale green on the shaded side, but 

 washed with light red next the sun, which is covered with darker red 

 spots, and marked with thin grey russet, round the eye. Eye, open, 

 with reflexed segments, equally as characteristic as that of the old 

 Court of Wick, and placed in a wide, shallow basin. Stamens, mar- 

 ginal ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, half an inch long, inserted in a 

 round cavity. Flesh, firm but tender, with a profusion of rich, vinous, 

 and highly flavoured juice. Cells, obovate ; axile. 



A delicious dessert apple, exceeding even the old Court of Wick ; it 

 is in use from October to February. 



Raised some years ago by Mr. Morris, a market gardener, at Brentford, near 

 London. 



MORRIS'S NONPAREIL RUSSET (Nonpareil Russet). Fruit, 

 small ; conical and irregularly formed, being generally larger on one 

 side than the other, and having the eye placed laterally. Skin, green, 

 cd with large patches of thin grey russet, strewed with silvery 

 scales, and marked with green dots. Eye, small and open, with seg- 

 ments reflexed at the tips, and set in a plaited basin. Stamens, 

 median ; tube, conical. Stalk, short, and deeply inserted in an oblique 

 cavity. Flesh, greenish, firm, crisp, juicy, sugary, briskly flavoured, 

 and charged with a pleasant aroma. Cells, quite closed, ovate ; axile. 



An excellent dessert apple, of the first quality ; in use from October 

 to March, and will keep even as long as May and June. 



The Morris's Nonpareil Russet, of the London Horticultural Society's catalogue, 

 which is said to be oblate, cannot be true. I know that the variety described above 

 is the true one, the friend from whom I received it having procured it from Mr. 

 Morris, of Brentford, by whom it was raised. 



MORRIS'S RUSSET. Fruit, below medium size, two inches 



