APPLES. 27 



Stalk short, deeply inserted. Skin pale yellow, a little mot- 

 tled with pale red on the sunny side. Flesh pale yellow, soft, 

 with a very good and pleasant flavoured juice. Excellent 

 to eat ripe from the tree, baking and roasting well till Christ- 

 mas. 



SECT. Y. Winter. Round, or nearly so. 



67. BEACHAMWELL SEEDLING. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 42. 

 Pom. Mag. t. 82. 



Motteux's Seedling. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 42. 



Fruit rather below the middle size, the shape of a small 

 Golden Reinette. Eye small, open, slightly sunk. Stalk 

 half an inch long, moderately thick. Skin pale yellow, slight- 

 ly tinged with red on the sunny side, and sprinkled with ir- 

 regular brown spots. Flesh yellow, tender, juicy, and plea- 

 sant. An excellent dessert apple from November till April. 

 Raised some years ago by John Motteux, Esq. of Beacham- 

 well, in Norfolk, where the original tree now stands ; it is a 

 hardy sort, and a very good bearer. 



68. BELLEDGE. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 65. 



Fruit rather below the middle size, round, free from an- 

 gles, and a little narrowed towards the crown ; about two 

 inches and a quarter deep, and two inches and a half in dia- 

 meter. Eye rather small, nearly closed by short, acute seg- 

 ments of the calyx, in a round rather well-shaped basin, sur- 

 rounded by very slight obtuse plaits. Stalk half an inch long, 

 slender, sunk level with the base in a funnel-shaped cavity. 

 Skin pale grass green, slightly tinged with pale brown where 

 exposed to the sun, the whole interspersed with numerous 

 imbedded gray dots. Flesh tender, crisp, greenish white. 

 Juice plentiful, sugary, with a slight pleasant acid, and a slight 

 aromatic flavour. 



A neat dessert and culinary apple, from October till Christ- 

 mas. 



Described from a fruit grown in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, at Chiswick, in 1830. 



69. BELLE GUIDELINE. G. LwcL Plan of an Orchard, 

 1796. 



Belle Grisdeline. Forsyth, Ed. 3. No. 5. 



Fruit middle sized, of a very regular, and perfectly round 

 figure. Eye sunk in a somewhat deep regularly-formed ba- 

 sin. Stalk half an inch long, slender. Skin yellow, marbled 

 and shaded on the sunny side with a lively red, intermixed 



