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straight, thick, and stout, inserted in a very narrow and shallow cavity. 

 Flesh, white, tender, soft, juicy, and briskly flavoured. 



An excellent culinary apple, much grown in the neighbourhood of 

 Lancaster ; in use from October to January. 



Scotch Virgin. See White Virgin. 



SCREVETON GOLDEN PIPPIN. Fruit, the size and shape of 

 the old Golden Pippin, and little, if at all, inferior to it in flavour. 

 Skin, green at first, changing to greenish yellow when it ripens, and 

 considerably marked with russet patches and dots, sometimes entirely 

 covered with russet. Eye, open, with long, pointed, reflexed segments, 

 set level on the surface without depression. Stamens, marginal ; tube, 

 conical. Stalk, half an inch to three-quarters long, set in a shallow 

 cavity. Flesh, yellow, tender, and with a pleasant flavour. Cells, 

 obovate ; axile, open. 



A dessert apple of first-rate quality ; it is in use from December to 

 April. 



Raised in the garden of Sir John Thoroton, Bart., at Screveton, in Nottingham- 

 shire, about the year 1808. 



Scudamore's Crab. See Red-streak. 



SEEK-NO-FARTHER. Fruit, medium sized ; conical, or Pear- 

 main-shaped. Skin, yellowish green, streaked with broken patches of 

 crimson, on the shaded side, and strewed with grey russety dots, but 

 covered with light red, which is marked with crimson streaks, and 

 covered with patches of fine delicate russet, and numerous large, 

 square, and star-like russety specks like scales, on the side exposed to 

 the sun. Eye, small and closed, with broad, flat, convergent segments, 

 the edges of which fit neatly to each other, set in a rather deep and 

 plaited basin. Stalk, about half an inch long, stout, and inserted in a 

 deep, round, and regular cavity. Flesh, greenish yellow, crisp, juicy, 

 rich, sugary, and vinous, charged with a pleasant aromatic flavour. 



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

 November to January. 



This is the true old Seek-no-farther. 

 Seigneur d'Orsay. See St. Julien. 



SELWOOD'S REINETTE. Fruit, large, three inches wide, and 

 about two inches and a half high ; round and flattened, angular on the 

 sides, and with five prominent plaits round the eye, which is small, 

 open, and not at all depressed, but rather elevated on the surface.. 

 Skin, pale green, almost entirely covered with red, which is marked 

 with broken stripes of darker red, those on the shaded side being paler, 

 and not so numerous as on the side exposed to the sun. Stalk, about 

 half an inch long, very stout, and inserted the whole of its length in a 

 russety cavity. Flesh, greenish white, tender, brisk, and pleasantly 

 flavoured. 



