172 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



By some considered as a dessert apple, but of inferior quality. Mr. 

 Thompson thinks it may, perhaps, do for cider ; it is in use from 

 November to March. 



The tree is a very abundant bearer. 



A Jersey apple, which has for a long period been cultivated in the orchards of 

 that island. It was transmitted to the gardens of the London Horticultural Society 

 by Major-General Le Couteur, of Jersey, in the year 1822. 



PETWOKTH NONPAREIL (Green Nonpareil). Fruit, small, two 

 inches and a half wide, and two inches high ; roundish ovate, even in 

 its outline. Skin, quite green, covered in places with thin brown russet. 

 Eye, small and closed, with flat convergent segments, sometimes erect. 

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

 slender, not deeply inserted. Flesh, greenish, firm, crisp, and juicy, 

 with a good flavour, but not equal to that of the old Nonpareil. Cells, 

 obovate ; axile. 



A dessert apple of second-rate quality ; in use from January till 

 April. 



This was raised in the garden of the Earl of Egremont, at Petworth, Sussex. 

 Phillips' Pieinette. See Court of Wick. 



PHEASANT'S EYE. Fruit, medium sized, two inches and three- 

 quarters wide, and the same in height ; conical and angular, widest in 

 the middle and terminating at the apex in several prominent ridges. 

 Skin, entirely covered with bright crimson stripes on a rich yellow 

 ground, the colour being somewhat paler on the shaded side. Eye, 

 small, with erect convergent segments, which are divergent at the 

 points, set in a small, narrow, and somewhat puckered basin. Stamens, 

 median ; tube, conical. Stalk, half an inch long, slender, inserted in a 

 wide, rather angular cavity. Flesh, yellowish, stained with red in 

 some parts, especially from the eye downwards ; firm and crisp, juicy, 

 sweet, and briskly flavoured. Cells, ovate ; axile. 



A cooking apple ; in use from November till January. This is a 

 very beautiful fruit, and was sent me by Messrs. John Jeffries & Son, 

 nurserymen, Oxford. 



PHILIP MAUNDY. Fruit, about medium size, three inches wide, 

 and two inches and a quarter high ; roundish oblate, sometimes inclining 

 to ovate, ribbed on the sides and undulating round the eye. Skin, 

 smooth and shining, lemon yellow in the shade, and with a bright red 

 cheek on the side next the sun, the whole strewed with large russet dots. 

 Eye, closed, with convergent segments, set in a deep angular basin. 

 Stamens, marginal or median ; tube, conical. Stalk, very short, not 

 more than a quarter of an inch, set in a wide cavity. Flesh, very soft, 

 not very juicy, and with a very rough astringent flavour. Cells, open ; 

 obovate ; axile. 



A Herefordshire cider apple. 



