180 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



Poor Man's Friend. See Warner's King. 

 Pope's Apple. See Cobham. 

 Pork Apple. See Orange Goff. 

 Portugal. See Ileinette de Canada. 

 Postophe d'Hiver. See Borsdorfer. 

 Potter's Large. See Kentish Fillbasket. 



POTTS'S SEEDLING. Fruit, large, three inches and a quarter 

 wide, and three inches high ; roundish, depressed, angular, and very 

 irregular in its outline, puckered and ribbed round the eye. Skin, 

 smooth, shining, and unctuous, when ripe ; of an uniform greenish 

 straw colour sprinkled with russet dots. Eye, large and closed, with 

 connivent segments, set in an angular and ribbed basin. Stamens, 

 marginal ; tube, wide conical. Stalk, half an inch long, stout, inserted 

 the whole of its length in a deep, irregular, and uneven cavity. Flesh, 

 very tender, and pleasantly sub-acid, with all the character of the flesh 

 of Codlins. Cells, obovate, pointed ; abaxile. 



An excellent early kitchen apple of the Domino and Lord Suffield 

 class ; ripe during September and the early part of October. It was 

 raised by Mr. Samuel Potts, of Robinson Lane, Ashton-under-Lyne, 

 about the year 1849. 



POWELL'S RUSSET. Fruit, small, two inches wide, and an inch 

 and three-quarters high ; roundish, and regularly formed, broad and 

 flattened at the base, and narrowing a little towards the eye. Skin, 

 almost entirely covered with pale brown russet, but where any portion 

 of the ground colour is visible, it is greenish yellow on the shaded 

 side, and tinged with brown where exposed to the sun. Eye, open, 

 placed in a round, even, and shallow basin. Stamens, marginal ; tube, 

 funnel-shaped. Stalk, about half an inch long, inserted in a rather 

 wide and shallow cavity. Flesh, yellow, firm, very juicy and sweet, 

 with a rich and highly aromatic flavour. Cells, closed, obovate ; 

 axile. 



A dessert apple of the very first quality ; it is in use from November 

 to February. 



This is a pretty little russet, like the old Nonpareil in shape, but with 

 a very short stalk. 



PREMIER. Fruit, small, two inches and an eighth wide, and an 

 inch and three-quarters high ; round and depressed, ribbed, though not 

 prominently, and rather knobbed at the apex. Skin, almost entirely 

 covered with crimson except where shaded, and there it is yellow. 

 Eye, rather large for the size of the fruit, with convergent leaf-like 

 segments, set in a wide round depression. Stamens, median ; tube, 



