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cavity. Ground colour greenish yellow, clouded with russet 

 and whitish blotches, often delicately tinted with a light 

 blush to the sun. Flesh pale yellow, soft, and mellow; 

 flavour rich and saccharine. In use in October and Novem- 

 ber, sometimes in December. A fine Irish apple of the first 

 quality, and in great esteem here. The tree grows erect, 

 makes strong shoots of a light giey colour, and has leaves of 

 a pale green ; it is rather a tliin bearer, but makes ample 

 amends by the size and richness of its fruit. 



2. Scarlet Qiieening. — About the middle size, conic, 

 broadest at the base. Sides irregular. Eye small, deep, 

 and wrinkled. Stalk long, set in a large cavity. Ground 

 colour yellow, blotched, and streaked with red. Flesh firm 

 and juicy ; flavour saccharine and aromatic. A good fruit ; 

 in use in October and November. The tree bears well. 



3. Scarlet Crqfton. A middle-sized flatted apple with 

 circular sides, and a wide and shallow eye, wrinkled and 

 sunk in the head. Stalk short, and set in a shallow cavity. 

 Skin of a bright red to the sun, and yellowish green from it, 

 streaked with russet. Flesh yellowish, tender, crisp, and 

 juicy, never mealy ; flavour sugary, vinous, and often aromatic. 

 An excellent Irish fruit, which has no superior in its season ; 

 it is in use from October to the end of January, and makes 

 a choice cider. The tree grows flat-headed, with rough, 

 speckled, slender shoots, which bear towards the extremities: 

 this habit, which has a tendency to render the centre of an 

 espalier bare, fits it rather for a standard ; as such it bears 

 abundantly. 



4. *Sain Young. — This is a small flattish apple, with an eye 

 remarkably wide, from which the remains of its calyx project; 

 its stalk is short, and inserted in a small cavity. Ground 

 colour yellow, reddish to the sun, mixed with russet, and 

 interspersed with ruddy specks. Flesh yellow, firm, and 

 mellow ; flavour rich and saccharine. In use from October 

 to Januarj^ An Irish fruit greatly in esteem, but subject to 

 crack from overbearing, unless thinned out. The tree grows 

 dwarfish and spreading, and is very healthy ; its leaves are 

 more lucid than ordinary on the upper surface. 



5. Margil. — A middle-sized conic apple, slightly angular 

 on the sides. Eye wrinkled and small. Stalk slender and 

 deeply set. Surface bright yellow, striped and marbled with 

 red to the sun, sprinkled with darker specks, and a little 

 russet about the stalk and eye. Flesh yellowish, firm, and 

 juicy; flavour vinous, sugary, and piquante. A fruit of the 

 very highest rank in this period of good apples. In use from 

 October to February. The tree grows healthy, and bears 



