200 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



This appeared as a bud sport on an old tree of the Golden Pippin in an orchard 

 at Gourdie Hill, in the Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, the property of Robert 

 Mathew, Esq., who pointed it out to me when I was on a visit to him in 1846. 

 At that time it was merely a small branch thickly set with fruit-bearing spurs. 



Scarlet Incomparable. See Duchess's Favourite. 



SCAKLET LEADINGTON. Fruit, medium sized ; conical, even in 

 its outline, broadest at the base, and narrowing towards the eye, where 

 it is distinctly four-sided. Skin, smooth and shining, yellow on the 

 shaded side, and the whole of the exposed side covered with brilliant 

 dark crimson, shining as if varnished, and which shades off in streaks 

 of bright crimson. Eye, large and open, with long, broad, and ragged 

 segments, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, short and slender, inserted in 

 a wide and shallow cavity, which is lined with russet. Flesh, yellowish, 

 tender, crisp, juicy, and sugary, with a brisk and pleasant flavour, 

 slightly perfumed. 



An apple much esteemed in Scotland as a first-rate variety, both for 

 the dessert and culinary purposes ; but it does not rank so high in the 

 south ; it is in use from November to February. 



SCAELET NONPAKEIL. Fruit, medium sized ; round, narrowing 

 towards the apex, regularly and handsomely shaped. Skin, yellowish 

 on the shaded side, streaked with pale red, but covered with red, which 

 is streaked with deeper red, on the side next the sun, and covered with 

 patches of russet and large russety specks. Eye, open, with flat erect 

 segments, reflexed at the tips, and set in a shallow and even basin. 

 Stamens, marginal ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, an inch or more in 

 length, straight, inserted in a small round cavity, which is lined with 

 scales of silvery grey russet. Flesh, yellowish white, firm, juicy, rich, 

 and sugary. Cells, elliptical or ovate ; axile, slit. 



A very excellent dessert apple of first-rate quality ; it is in use from 

 January to March, 



The tree is hardy, a good grower, though slender in its habit, and 

 an excellent bearer. 



The Scarlet Nonpareil, according to one account, was discovered growing in the 

 garden of a publican at Esher, in Surrey, and was first cultivated by Grimwood, 

 of the Kensington Nursery, but according to Salisbury it was raised from seed at 

 Kempton Park, near Sunbury, in the beginning of this century (1816). 



SCAELET PEAEMAIN (Bell's Scarlet Pearmain ; BelVs Scarlet; 

 Hood's Seedling ; Oxford Peach). Fruit, medium sized, two inches 

 and a half wide, and two inches and a quarter high ; conical, regularly 

 and handsomely shaped. Skin, smooth, tender, and shining, of a rich, 

 deep, bright crimson, with stripes of darker crimson on the side next 

 the sun, and extending almost over the whole surface of the fruit, 

 except where it is much shaded, and there it is yellow, washed and 

 striped with crimson, but of a paler colour, intermixed with a tinge of 

 yellow, on the shaded side, and the whole surface sprinkled with 

 numerous grey russety dots. Eye, open, with long reflexed segments, 



