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92. BEDFORDSHIRE FOUNDLING. Thomp. Lind. 



A large green English apple, excellent for kitchen use. Fruit 

 large, roundish, obscurely ribbed. Skin deep green, paler at 

 maturity. Stalk short, deeply planted. Calyx open, rather 

 deeply set. Flesh yellowish, tender, juicy, with a pleasant 

 acid flavour. October to February, 



92. DUTCH MIGNONNE. Thomp. Lind. P. Mag. 



Reinette Doree, (of the Germans.} Paternoster Apfel. 

 Pomme de Laak. Settin Pippin. 



Grosser Casselar Reinette. Copmanthorpe Crab. 



This magnificent and delicious apple from Holland, proves 

 one of the greatest acquisitions that we have received from 

 abroad. We believe, indeed, that the Dutch Mignonne is larger 

 and finer here than at home. At any rate we know none supe- 

 rior to it in superb appearance and rich flavour as an early win- 

 ter fruit. The tree makes very strong upright shoots, and bears 

 fine crops. (Hawthornden, incorrectly, of some gardens here.) 



Fruit large, often very large, roundish, very regularly formed. 

 Skin dull orange, half covered or more with rich, dull red, dot- 

 ted and mottled with large yellow russet specks. Calyx open, 

 set in a deep, round, regular basin. Stalk nearly an inch long, 

 slender, bent, and planted in a narrow, deep cavity. Flesh at 

 first firm, but becoming tender, with a rich, very aromatic fla- 

 vour. November to February. 



93. DOCTOR. Coxe. Thomp. 



Red Doctor. 

 De Witt. 



A Pennsylvania apple, named in honour of a physician of 

 Germantown, who first brought it into notice. It is not so much 

 esteemed here at the north, as the tree is rather an indifferent 

 grower and bearer. 



Fruit medium sized, regularly formed and flat. Skin smooth, 

 yellow, striped and washed with two or three shades of red, with 

 a few darker spots. Calyx set in a deep basin. Stalk very 

 short, deeply inserted. Flesh tender, juicy, and breaking in its 

 texture, with an excellent, slightly aromatic flavour. October 

 to January. 



94. DOMINE. 



This apple, extensively planted in the orchards on the Hudson, 

 so much resembles the Rambo externally, that the two are often 

 confounded together, and the outline of the latter fruit (see 



