SELECTION OF KITCHEN AND CIDER APPLES. 533 



Alfruton. Very large, roundish, greenish yellow, firm, juicy, subacid ; 

 November to April ; a good bearer, and a healthy tree. 



Gloria Mundi, syn. Monstrous pippin. Very large, roundish, yellow, 

 tender, juicy ; October to January ; a moderate bearer ; the fruit, from its 

 size, is apt to be blown from the tree, unless it be grown on dwarfs. An 

 American variety. 



Royal Russet, syn. Leathercoat. Large, obtuse, conical, russet, somewhat 

 rough and subacid in flavour, but excellent cooked ; November to May ; 

 a good beaver, and a spreading tree. 



Brabant Belief eur. Large, roundish, yellow and red, firm, crisp, juicy ; 

 November to April ; a good bearer, a spreading tree, and an excellent fruit. 



Northern Greening. Middle size, oval, green, firm, crisp, juicy, subacid ; 

 November to April ; a good bearer, and the fruit not liable to shrivel. 



Norfolk Beaufin, syn. N. Beefin. Middle size, roundish, green arid 

 dark red, hard consistence ; December to June ; a good bearer, and the fruit 

 excellent when dried as a sweetmeat. 



Easter Pippin, syn. French Crab. Middle size, roundish, green and dull 

 brown, and will keep above a year, firm, crisp, and subacid ; December ; 

 a good bearer, and a hardy tree. 



Gooseberry Pippin. Large, somewhat oblong, yellow, firm, subacid ; 

 February till August ; named front its sauce being a substitute for, and re- 

 sembling that of green gooseberries. 



1135. Cider Apples. 



Siberian Bitter Sweet. Small, roundish ovate, yellow, more sweet than 

 bitter ; September ; a great bearer, and the tree free from insects and canker. 



Foxley. Small, roundish ovate, orange yellow, specific gravity ]080; 

 October and November ; a great bearer, and a healthy vigorous tree. 



Red Streak, syn. Old Red Streak, or Scudamore's Crab. Roundish, 

 streaked, spec. grav. 1079 ; December to April ; a good bearer, and the 

 fruit produces cider of the first quality. 



Fox Whelp. Middle size, ovate, dark red, spec. grav. 1078 ; December 

 to January ; a good bearer, and a healthy tree. 



Golden Harvey. A dessert apple, already described, which produces 

 excellent cider, spec. grav. 1085. 



Hagloe Crab. Small, ovate, yellowish, spec. grav. 1081 ; October to 

 February ; a great bearer, and a healthy, hardy tree. 



Coopers Red Streak. Middle size, roundish, streaked; November to 

 December ; a great bearer, and a vigorous, healthy tree. 



1136. Dessert apples which may be used as kitchen apples. Sugarloaf 

 Pippin, Wormsley Pippin, Autumn Pearmain, King of the Pippins, 

 Fearn's Pippin, Ribston Pippin, Old Pomeroy, Herefordshire Pearmain, 

 Reinette du Canada, Dutch Mignonne, Downton Nonpareil, Newtown 

 Pippin, Boston Russet. 



1137. Kitchen apples which may be used as dessert apples. Gravenstein, 

 Blenheim Pippin, Bedfordshire Foundling, London Pippin, Northern Green- 

 ing, Rhode Island Greening. 



1138. Apples for cottage gardens, where the soil and situation are favour" 

 able, and which may be used either for the table or the kitchen. Where the 

 space will admit of only one tree, the best is the Ribston Pippin ; where 

 two, the Ribston Pippin and the Blenheim Pippin ; where three, or more, 



