154 THE FBUIT MANUAL. 



NEW COCKPIT. Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter wide, and 

 two inches and three-quarters high; prominently angular, roundish and 

 flattened, the angles forming bold ridges round the eye. Skin, deep 

 rich yellow, streaked with bright crimson on the side next the sun, and 

 only partially so on the shaded side. Eye, small, closed, with flat con- 

 vergent segments, set in a deep angular basin. Stamens, marginal ; 

 tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, very short, or sometimes three-quarters of 

 an inch long, set in a deep angular cavity. Flesh, yellowish, tender, 

 juicy, and with a fine perfume. Cells, obovate ; abaxile. 



A fine culinary apple ; in use from October till Christmas. 



I do not know why this should be called the New Cockpit, as it has no relation 

 whatever to the Cockpit, either in size, shape, colour, or quality ; and though 

 called new, it is really a very old variety, which I can trace as far back as 1780. 

 The fruit, Avhen cut, has a fine perfume like Gravenstein. 



NEW GERMAN. Fruit, medium sized, two inches and five-eighths 

 wide, and two inches and three-quarters high ; conical, with somewhat 

 of a waist near the crown, distinctly five-ribbed, with smaller interme- 

 diate ribs, and on one or two of the most prominent the line of the 

 suture is distinctly seen ; the apex is puckered. Skin, smooth and 

 shining, dark mahogany next the sun, but striped with red and yellow 

 on the shaded side. Eye, set in a narrow puckered basin, with erect 

 convergent segments. Stamens, marginal ; tube, deep, funnel-shaped. 

 Stalk, long, inserted in a deep, wide, angular cavity. Flesh, very 

 tender, with a greenish tinge, sweet, and with an agreeable perfume. 

 Cells, open, obovate; axile. 



A good useful Herefordshire apple up till Christmas. 



NEW HAWTHORNDEN. Fruit, large, three inches and a half 

 wide, and two inches and a half high ; oblate, obtusely ribbed, and with 

 several rather prominent ridges round the eye. Skin, pale green, be- 

 coming straw or lemon yellow as it ripens, and sparingly strewed with 

 russet dots. Eye, partially closed, with somewhat erect, connivent 

 segments, set in a wide and finely plaited basin. Stamens, marginal ; 

 tube, conical. Stalk, half an inch to an inch long, inserted nearly all 

 its length in the wide open cavity. Flesh, tender, crisp, very juicy, 

 and pleasantly acid. Cells, elliptical ; abaxile. 



A handsome early cooking apple, which has a close resemblance in 

 form and colour to the old Hawthornden, but is very much larger. It is 

 in use from the beginning of September till the middle or end of 

 October, and then it becomes marked with fungoid specks, which indi- 

 cate the condition of the flesh under the surface. When used early it 

 is a fine fruit, but in the matter of lasting it does not equal the Winter 

 Hawthornden, with which it is very frequently confounded, an error 

 which I regret I helped to propagate by making them synonymous in 

 the last edition of this work. 



It was introduced by Mr. Rivers in 1847 by the name of New Hawthornden only, 

 and I am not aware how it became associated with the Winter Hawthornden. 



