APPLES. 237 



Week Pearmain. See Wickham's Pear ma in. 

 Weeks' Pippin. See Court of Wick. 

 Wellington. See Dumelow's Seedling. 



WELFORD PARK NONESUCH. Fruit, large and handsome, 

 three inches and a quarter wide, and two inches and 'a* half high ; 

 roundish and oblate, even and regular in its outline. Skin, fine lemon- 

 yellow on the shaded side, and on the side next the sun it is quite 

 overspread with bright crimson, which is mottled and streaked with 

 darker crimson, the colour gradually becoming paler as it extends to 

 the shaded side. Eye, open, with short rudimentary segments, set in 

 ;i saucer-like basin. Stalk, an inch or more long, slender, and deeply 

 inserted in a wide cavity. Flesh, white, very tender, as much so as 

 that of an American Newtown Pippin, with an excellent flavour and 

 fine aroma. 



A fine showy apple for culinary or dessert use, during October and 

 November. 



This was raised by Mr. Charles Ross, gardener, at Welford Park, near Newbury, 

 from Golden Harvey, fertilised, it is supposed, by Lamb Abbey Pearmain, as the 

 fruit from which the seed was taken grew en a tree half Golden Harvey and half 

 Lamb Abbey Pearmain. The seed was sown in 1864, and in 1865 grafts were put 

 on a Blenheim Pippin tree, which fruited for the first time in 1871. 



Weisser Somer Rambour. See Br titling. 



Welsh Pippin. See Marmalade Pippin. 



WEST GRINSTEAD PIPPIN. Fruit, medium sized, two inches 

 and three-quarters broad, by two inches and a half high ; roundish, 

 and slightly ribbed about the eye. Skin, light green, striped and 

 mottled with light red on the side next the sun, and strewed all over 

 with greyish white dots on the exposed, and brown dots on the shaded 

 side. Eye, open, set in a plaited basin. Stalk, a quarter of an inch 

 long, inserted in a shallow cavity. Flesh, greenish white, soft, tender, 

 juicy, and briskly acid. 



A good second-rate apple for the dessert ; in use from November to 

 April, and keeps well without shrivelling. 



A Sussex apple, raised at West Grinstead, in the western division of that county. 



Westmoreland Longstart. See Longstart. 



WHEELER'S EXTREME. Fruit, small, nearly two inches wide, 

 and one inch and a quarter high ; oblate, much resembling the Api in 

 shape. Skin, pale greenish yellow, considerably marked with russet, 

 particularly round the e} 7 e, and covered with fine clear red, which is 

 mottled with deeper red, on the side next the sun. Eye, small, and 

 closed, set in a shallow basin. Stalk, very short, inserted in a small 

 shallow cavity. Flesh, yellowish white, crisp, tender, sweet, and 

 delicately perfumed. 



