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as it is wide, with five obscure angles* extending from the 

 sides into the crown. Eye small. Stalk short, in a shallow 

 base. Skin yellow, with numerous green specks imbedded, 

 tinged with orange, and streaked with bright crimson on the 

 sunny side. Flesh white. Juice not plentiful, sub-acid. 



A culinary fruit from October to December. This, like 

 many other Dutch apples, has a thick skin. Its chief merits 

 are on the outside.* 



41. SUMMER BROADEN, of the Norwich Gardens. 

 Summer Colmari. G. Lind. Plan of an Orchard, 1796. 

 Fruit above the middle size, about two inches and three 



quarters in diameter, and two inches and a quarter deep, 

 slightly angular on the sides. Eye small, with a closed ca- 

 lyx, in a rather narrow basin, surrounded by some angular 

 plaits. Stalk short, slender, deeply inserted, not protruding 

 beyond the base. Skin dull yellowish green, tinged on the 

 sunny side with pale dull brown. Flesh greenish white, not 

 crisp. Juice sub-acid, with a pretty good flavour. 



A culinary apple in October and November. This is an 

 useful Norfolk apple, and known in the markets by the above 

 name. The trees are rather small growers, but great bearers. 



42. WALTHAM ABBEY SEEDLING. Hort. Trans. Vol. 

 v. p. 269. 



Fruit resembling a Golden Pippin, but much larger, near- 

 ly globular, some tapering a little towards the crown. Eye 

 large and open, seated in an even shallow basin. Stalk 

 short, deeply inserted. Skin pale yellow, becoming deeper 

 as the fruit ripens, sometimes with a tinge of dull scarlet next 

 the sun ; the whole surface is speckled with minute greenish 

 spots, and a patch of coarse russet always surrounds the stalk. 

 Flesh yellowish, soft, juicy, and very sweet ; it melts perfect- 

 ly in baking, taking a clear pale amber colour, and retaining 

 a high flavour. 



A dessert and culinary apple from October till January. 

 Praised from a seed of the Golden Noble, by Mr. John Bar- 

 nard of Waltham Abbey, in Essex, about 1810. It began 

 bearing in 1819, and its fruit was exhibited at the Horticul- 

 tural Society in 1821. 



* Rather an illiberal remark. Might not the circumstance of its "thick skin." 

 &c. be owing to the climate of England not being sufficient to ripen the fruit to per- 

 fection'? Perhaps if the fruit was ripened on a good south wall in England, the 

 thickness of the skin would vanish, and the flavour be much improved. I have no 

 doubt but our climate which ripens their Fall Pippins so well here, would improve 

 its character. Am. Ed. 



