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and regularly formed. Skin, green, covered with rough brown russet 

 over the whole surface. Eye, open, with short, erect, convergent 

 segments, which are reflexed at the tips, set in a very shallow, even 

 basin. Stamens, median ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, half an inch 

 long, stout, inserted in a shallow cavity. Flesh, greenish, crisp, juicy, 

 briskly acid, and without any aroma. Cells, obovate ; axile, closed. 

 A second-rate, very acid apple, which keeps till January. 



PROLIFEROUS RE INETTE. Fruit, medium sized, two inches 

 and three-quarters wide, and the same in height ; oval, with ten 

 obscure ribs, extending from the base to the apex, where they form 

 five small crowns. Skin, of a dull yellow ground colour, marked with 

 small broken stripes or streaks of crimson, and thickly covered with 

 small russety specks. Eye, closed, placed in a shallow, plaited, and 

 knobbed basin. Stalk, from half an inch to three-quarters long, deeply 

 inserted the whole of its length in a round and smooth cavity. Flesh, 

 yellowish white, very juicy and sugary, with a rich and brisk flavour. 



A very fine, briskly flavoured dessert apple ; in use from October to 

 December. 



I received this variety from the garden at Hammersmith, formerly in the pos- 

 session of the late Mr. James Lee. 



PUFFIN (Bear and Tear; Sweet Orcome). Fruit, large, three 

 inches and a quarter wide, and two inches and three-quarters high ; 

 round and depressed, angular in its outline. Skin, smooth and shining, 

 with a greasy feel when ripe ; on the side next the sun it is deep 

 orange covered with broken streaks of crimson, and on the shaded side, 

 deep yellow with a few faint streaks of pale crimson. Eye, closed, with 

 connivent segments, set in a deep angular basin. Stamens, basal ; 

 tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, long, deeply inserted in a russety cavity. 

 Flesh, soft, tender, and sweetish, having rather a mawkish flavour. 

 Cells, ovate ; abaxile. 



This is one of the soft-fleshed cooking apples, in use in October, and 

 of but little merit. I received it from Mr. Poynter, nurseryman, of 

 Taunton. 



Putman's Russet. See Boston Russet. 



QUEEN. Fruit, medium size to large, varying from three inches 

 to three and three-quarters wide, and two and a quarter to two and 

 three-quarters high ; oblate, even and regular in its outline, ribbed 

 and five-knobbed round the eye. Skin, clear lemon-yellow, almost 

 entirely covered with bright crimson, which is again marked with 

 broken streaks and patches of darker crimson, and with a lining of 

 russet in the stalk cavity. Eye, slightly open, with erect convergent 

 and somewhat divergent segments, set in a deep and ribbed basin. 

 Stamens, median ; tube, short, conical. Stalk, nearly three-quarters 

 of an inch long, deeply inserted in a wide and deep cavity, which is 



