231 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



A culinary apple of good, but not first-rate quality ; in use from 

 October to March. 



Duhamel, and, folio Aving him, almost all the French pomologists, attribute the 

 name of this apple to the perfume of violets being found in the flavour of the 

 fruit, a peculiarity I could never detect. It is more probable that it originated 

 from the fruit being covered with a beautiful blue-violet bloom, a characteristic 

 which was observed by Rivinius and Moulin, who wrote in the 17th century. 



WADHURST PIPPIN. Fruit, above medium size, sometimes very 

 large, but generally averaging three inches wide, and two inches and 

 three-quarters high ; ovate or short Pearmain-shaped, and angular on 

 the sides. Skin, yellow tinged with green on the shaded side, and 

 brownish red streaked with crimson on the side next the sun, and 

 strewed with minute grey dots. Eye, closed, set in a wide, deep, and 

 angular basin. Stamens, basal ; -tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, half an 

 inch long, stout, placed in a shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish, crisp, 

 juicy, and briskly flavoured. Cells, ovate ; axile, slit. 



A culinary apple of excellent quality ; in use from October to 

 February. 



It originated at Wadhurst, in Sussex. 



WALSGROVE WONDER. Fruit, large, three inches and a half 

 wide, and two inches and three-quarters high ; roundish ovate, being 

 wide at the base and narrowing abruptly towards the crown, obtusely 

 angular, and bluntly ribbed about the eye. Skin, deep rich yellow on 

 the shaded side, and with an orange-red cheek on the side next the sun, 

 and a thin crust of cinnamon-coloured russet spread here and there 

 over the surface. Eye, small, set in an angular and plaited basin, with 

 connivent segments. Stamens, median ; tube, conical, inclining to 

 funnel-shape. Stalk, very short and slender, imbedded in the deep 

 funnel-shaped cavity. Flesh, yellowish, tender, juicy, and with a 

 pleasant sub-acid flavour. Cells, roundish or oblate ; axile, wide open. 



A very handsome culinary apple ; in use from October to Christmas. 

 It bears a strong resemblance to Greenup's Pippin externally, but the 

 internal characters are so marked as to constitute them distinct varieties. 



This was sent to the National Apple Congress at Chiswick in 1883 by Mr. 

 Twinberrow, of Walsgrove, Stourport. 



WALTHAM ABBEY SEEDLING. Fruit, large ; roundish, inclin- 

 ing to ovate, in which respect it differs from Golden Noble, which is 

 quite round. Skin, pale yellow, assuming a deeper tinge as it attains 

 maturity, with a faint blush of red where exposed to the sun, and 

 strewed all over with minute russety dots, and occasionally a few 

 patches of thin russet. Eye, large and open, with erect, somewhat 

 divergent segments, set in a shallow and even basin. Stamens, mar- 

 ginal or median ; tube, short conical. Stalk, short, deeply inserted, 

 and surrounded with rough russet. Flesh, yellowish, tender, juicy, 

 sweet, and pleasantly flavoured, and when cooked assuming a clear pale 

 amber. Cells, obovate ; axile, open. 



