OF WINTER APPLES. 



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112. SURPRISE. 

 A third rate apple, whose flesh is deeply tinged with red. 



113. TALMAN'S SWEETING. 



Fig. a 



Fruit of the medium size, fair, symmet- 

 rical, elongated, subcircular. Color 

 golden yellow. Skin sparsely dotted. 

 Stem long, slender, exsert. Depres- 

 sion deep, narrow at the bottom. Ca- 

 lyx small. Depression rather narrow, 

 with an abrupt margin. Tube closed. 

 Flesh white, tender, rather dry, sweet. 

 One of the best of the sweet apples, 

 when taken in connexion with its 

 keeping qualities. 



114. BEACHAMWELL SEEDLING. 

 Fruit below the medium size ; color pale yellow, tinged with red on the sunny side. Skin 

 sprinkled with dots. Stem short, thick. Flesh yellow, tender, and juicy; pleasant. 

 English. 



115. COCKLE PIPPIN. 

 White Cockle. 



Fruit of the medium size, slightly angular and tapering. Calyx closed in a narrow de- 

 pression ; plaited. Stem rather short and slender. Color pale green, changing into 

 bright yellow. Flesh yellowish white, saccharine, slightly perfumed. 



116. GOLDEN BALL. 



Fruit above the medium size ; angular ; color yellow ; stem short, small ; depression me- 

 dium, and marked with radiating green rays diverging from the centre ; basin shallow. 

 Flesh tender, rich, aromatic. 

 It is regarded as a fine cooking apple. Tree unproductive, and prefers (he north. 



