240 THE FRUIT MANUAJL. 



Stamens, marginal ; tube, deep conical or cylindrical. Stalk, long, 

 very slender, deeply inserted. Flesh, snow-white, soft and spongy, 

 with an astringent and sweet flavour. Cells, elliptical ; axile. 

 A pretty little Herefordshire cider apple. 



WHITE PARADISE (Lady's Finger; Egg; Paradise Pippin}. 

 Fruit, medium sized, two inches and a half wide, and three inches high ; 

 oblong, broader at the base than the apex. Skin, smooth, thick, and 

 tough, of a fine rich yellow, thinly and faintly freckled with red on the 

 shaded side, but covered with broken streaks and dots of darker red, 

 interspersed with dark brown russety dots, on the side exposed to the 

 sun. Eye, open, with long, pointed, reflexed segments, set in a shallow 

 basin. Stamens, marginal ; tube, funnel-shaped. Stalk, an inch long, 

 fleshy at the insertion, and inserted in an even, round cavity, with a 

 swelling on one side of it. Flesh, yellowish, tender, crisp, juicy, 

 sugary, and pleasantly flavoured. 



A second-rate, but beautiful and handsome dessert apple ; in per- 

 fection the beginning of October, but towards the end of the month 

 becomes dry and mealy. Cells, obovate ; abaxile. 



It is, I believe, a Scotch apple, and much grown in some districts, particularly 

 in Clydesdale, where it is known by the name of Egg Apple, and where the fruit 

 lasts longer than when grown in the warmer climate of the south. 



The Lady's Finger of Dittrich, vol. i. p. 505, is a flat apple of a Calville shape, 

 and must be incorrect. 



White Pippin. See Norfolk Stone Pippin. 



WHITE ROSING. Fruit, small, two inches and a quarter wide, 

 and an inch and three-quarters high ; roundish and somewhat flattened, 

 angular on the side, and ribbed on the crown. Skin, smooth and 

 unctuous, of a clear lemon-yellow colour, and with a flush of red next 

 the sun. Eye, small, and quite closed, in a shallow and puckered 

 basin. Stalk, very short, quite imbedded in the shallow cavity. Flesh, 

 quite white, tender, soft, not very juicy, and slightly acid. 



An early culinary apple ; ripe in September. The tree is a great 

 bearer. 



A Sussex apple, much grown in the eastern division of the county, but it is not 

 of any great merit, and is not worthy of much cultivation. In appearance it 

 resembles Manks Codlin, but is much inferior to that excellent variety. The name 

 has evidently arisen from the rosy cheek which it has on one side of the fruit. 



White Spanish Reinette. See Pieinette Blanche dEspagne. 

 White Stone Pippin. See Norfolk Stone Pippin. 



WHITE STYRE. Fruit, small, two inches and a half wide, and 

 two and a quarter high ; round, obscurely ribbed. Skin, -uniform lemon- 

 colour, with patches and lines of russet over the surface, especially on 

 the side next the sun and in the stalk cavity, the surface strewed with 

 small russet dots. Eye, closed, with erect connivent segments, set in a 



