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pretty deep depression. Stamens, median ; tube, short, funnel-shaped. 

 Stalk, half an inch long, slender, set in a deep russety cavity. Flesh, 

 yellowish, soft and tender, sweet, and with a brisk flavour. Cells, 

 open, ovate ; axile. 



A Herefordshire cider apple. 



White Summer Calville. See Calville Bhnn-lic 

 White Summer Pippin. See Summer Golden Pippin. 



WHITE VIRGIN (Scotch Virgin}. Fruit, medium sized, two inches 

 and three-quarters wide, and two inches high ; oblate. Skin, smooth 

 and shining, pale yellow on the shaded side, but thin orange-red 

 streaked with deep red on the side next the sun, and strewed with 

 dark dots and a few veins of russet. Eye, large and closed, with 

 broad ovate segments, set in a wide, shallow, and plaited basin. Stalk, 

 a quarter of an inch long, inserted in a narrow and shallow cavity. 

 Flesh, white, soft, tender, juic}*, and briskly acid. 



An excellent culinary apple ; in use from October to February. 



WHITE WE STLING. Fruit, rather below medium size, two 

 inches and a half broad at the middle, and two inches and a half high ; 

 roundish, inclining to oval towards the eye; angular on the sides, 

 and ribbed round the apex. Skin, yellow, tinged with green, and 

 strewed with reddish brown dots, on the shaded side, but deep yellow, 

 with large dark crimson spots, on the side next the sun, and covered 

 with russet over the base. Eye, small and closed, set in a narrow 

 and angular basin. Stalk, half an inch long, very slender, inserted in 

 a deep, narrow, and russety cavity. Flesh, white, tender, sweet, and 

 briskly flavoured. 



An apple of hardly second-rate quality, grown about the north-eastern 

 parts of Sussex ; it is in use from October to Christmas. 



WHITE WHOKLE. Fruit, small, two niches wide, and an inch 

 and three-quarters high ; round, even hi outline. Skin, quite yellow, 

 with a greenish tinge on the shaded side. Eye, open, with divergent 

 segments, set in a very shallow basin. Stamens, median ; tube, conical. 

 Stalk, short and slender, inserted in a shallow, narrow cavity. Flesh, 

 tender, juicy, sweet, and agreeably flavoured. Cells, obovate ; axile. 



A dessert apple, in use from October to Christmas, but not of high 

 merit. It has a great resemblance to Downton Pippin. 



WHITE WINE. Fruit, about medium size, two inches and a 

 half broad in the middle, and two inches and a half high, narrowing 

 towards the apex; conical, slightly angular on the sides, and ribbed 

 round the eye. Skin, greenish yellow, strewed with russety dots, on 

 the shaded side, but deep yellow, reticulated with fine russet, and 

 dotted with small russety specks, on the side exposed to the sun, and 

 with a ray of fine lilac-purple on the base encircling the stalk. Eye, 



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