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A very valuable and beautiful apple, suitable either for dessert or 

 culinary use from December to the end of April. The tree attains 

 about the middle size, is very hardy, and an excellent bearer. 



This is a well-known Sussex variety, und^r the name of Duck's Bill, and is 

 much grown upon the Weald. Jt is the Winter Pearmain and Winter Quoining 

 ot the London markets, and it is also grown in the Kentish orchards under these 

 names. 



WINTER PIPPIN. Fruit, small, two inches and a quarter wide, 

 and two inches high ; roundish, depressed at the crown, obtusely 

 ribbed, with ridges round the eye. Skin, bright red on the side 

 exposed to the sun, and yellow, with a few pale broken streaks of red, 

 on the shaded side ; the surface dotted with russet. Eye, small and 

 (juite closed, set in an angular basin. Stamens, median ; tube, small 

 conical. Stalk, slender, about half an inch long, nearly imbedded in 

 the russety cavity. Flesh, yellowish, firm, crisp, and agreeably 

 flavoured. Cells, roundish obovate ; axile, open. 



This is at the present time considered one of the best six Gloucester- 

 shire cider apples. 



WINTER POMEROY. Fruit, medium sized, three inches wide, 

 and two inches and a half high ; roundish or roundish ovate ; distinctly 

 live-sided, especially towards the apex, forming ridges, and rather flat 

 at the base. Skin, smooth, deep yellow on the shaded side, slrewed 

 with bold russet dots, and with a bright red cheek on the side next the sun. 

 Eye, open, with erect, convergent, and somewhat divergent segments, 

 set in a moderately deep basin. Stamens, median ; tube, short, funnel- 

 shaped. Stalk, long and very slender, inserted in a deep narrow cavity, 

 surrounded with ;i patch of pale brown russet. Flesh, yellowish, firm, 

 crisp, and pleasantly sub-acid. Cells, elliptical ; axile, open. 



A useful cooking apple ; in season from December till January. 



WINTER QUOINING (Winter Queening). Fruit, medium sized, 

 two inches and quarter wide, and rather more than two inches and a 

 half high ; conical, distinctly five-sided, with five acute angles, extend- 

 ing the whole length of the fruit, and terminating at the crown in five 

 equal and prominent crowns. Skin, pale green, almost entirely covered 

 with red, which is striped and mottled with deeper red, and marked on 

 the shaded side with a thin coat of russet. Eye, small and closed, 

 with long pointed segments, set in a narrow and angular cavity. 

 Stamens, median ; tube, conical, inclining to funnel-shape. Stalk, 

 short, or about half an inch long, and slender, deeply inserted in a 

 narrow and angular cavity. Flesh, greenish yellow, tender, soft, 

 not very juicy, sugary, rich, and perfumed. Cells, obovate ; abaxile. 



A good old English apple, suitable either for the dessert or culinary 

 purposes ; it is in use from November to May. 



The Winter Quoining is a very old English apple. See Queening. 



Winter Queening. See Winter Pear main and Winter Quoining* 



Winter Red-streak. See Cambiisnethan Pippin. 



